1. Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
   - poverty grass, Hudsonia tomentosa

Derived forms: beach heathers

Type of: subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Hudsonia, Hudsonia

Encyclopedia: Beach heather

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