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Tidestromia lanuginosa
Also called Woolly Honeysweet, Honeysweet, Honeymat, Wooly tidestromia
Woolly tidestromia is a low, sprawling annual herb native to the southwestern and central US, northern Mexico and the Dominican Republic, grown mainly as a wild or ground-cover plant. It thrives in full sun and dry, sandy or well-drained ground, and is rarely grown deliberately.
Tidestromia lanuginosa, commonly known as woolly tidestromia, woolly honeysweet, honeysweet, or honeymat in English and as hierba lanuda, hierba ceniza, or espanta vaqueras in Spanish, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is a low growing annual found in the United States, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
T. lanuginosa is native to the western and central United States (including the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah), northern Mexico (including the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas), and the Dominican Republic. It occurs in a wide range of habitats, including riparian forests, pinyon–juniper woodland, desert scrub, grasslands, coastal dunes, beaches, roadsides, and fields.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tidestromia lanuginosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
