Hudsonia
This article is about plants. For the supercontinent, see Columbia (supercontinent).
| Hudsonia | |
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| Hudsonia tomentosa, Pancake Bay, Ontario | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Cistaceae |
| Genus: | Hudsonia L. |
| Species | |
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Hudsonia (goldenheather, poverty grass) is a small genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Cistaceae, native to North America. They are typical of sand dune habitats.
They are evergreen subshrubs growing to 20 cm tall.
| Scientific name | English name |
|---|---|
| Hudsonia ericoides | Pine barren goldenheather[1] |
| Hudsonia montana (syn. H. ericoides subsp. montana) | Mountain goldenheather |
| Hudsonia tomentosa | Woolly beachheather |
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