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n. - Small evergreen subshrubs of North America.

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  • Last time we looked, Beacon wasn't the anchor of the Autonomous Region of Hudsonia, nor was Bilbao a short train ride away from a world art capital with many other more...
  • Hudsonia tomentosa, which a woman in the stage told us was called "poverty grass," because it grew where nothing else would.
  • In some parts the two species of poverty-grass (Hudsonia tomentosa and ericoides), which deserve a better name, reign for miles in little hemispherical tufts or islets,...
  • Heather, Beach Hudsonia tomentosa 52
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