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Honeysweet

Tidestromia

Honeysweet
Photo: user:pompilid, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Annual, Perennial
Water
Drought tolerant

About

Tidestromia is a genus with about six or seven species of annual or subshrub perennial plants native to desert and semi-arid regions of the western United States, Mexico and tropical America in the family Amaranthaceae. A common name of some species is honeysweet. The stems are reddish and contrast conspicuously with the silvery leaves. This genus is named for the botanist Ivar Tidestrom.

Species include:

Other Tidestromia plants

Woolly tidestromia · Shrubby honeysweet

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tidestromia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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