Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Noun: poverty grass
  1. Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
    "Poverty grass stabilized the shifting dunes";
    - beach heather, Hudsonia tomentosa

Derived forms: poverty grasses

Type of: subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Hudsonia, Hudsonia

Encyclopedia: Poverty grass