Family: Leadwort
Characteristics
Tough perennial growing from a woody rhizome. The thick, leathery leaves are oval in shape and up to about 30 cm long, including the petioles, located in a basal rosette about the stem (about 1 ft long). The inflorescence is a stiff, branching panicle bearing large clusters of flowers. The flowers have brownish white ribbed sepals and lavender to nearly white petals. Blooms in summer.
Area
Coastal habitat: beaches, salt marshes. Grows with pickleweed and salt grass.
Family: Leadwort
Characteristics
Perennial which grows in low clumps and sends up long stems from which globes of bright pink flowers blossom. In some cases purple, white, or red flowers also occur. Basal mound of tough grass-like leaves. Blooms from late spring through summer.
Area
Coastal bluffs, dunes, beaches, edges of salt marshes.
Family: Four o'clock
Characteristics
Perennial with fragrant yellow flowers in bloom except in the coldest months. Flowers have no petals. Sticky foliage usually sprinkled with sand. Bears a small, winged fruit. Grows in succulent mats.
Area
Sandy beaches.
Other
Edible roots.
