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Hudsonia ericoides

Hudsonia ericoides

9.9
A small evergreen shrub with small leaves and yellow flowers that grows in sandy soil
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The sandy dunes were dotted with Hudsonia ericoides in full bloom.

Examples

  • The Hudsonia ericoides thrives in sandy soils.

  • Efforts are being made to protect Hudsonia ericoides due to its limited geographic range.

  • Botanists studied the habitat preferences of Hudsonia ericoides along the Atlantic coast.

  • Have you seen a Hudsonia ericoides in bloom?

  • The sandy dunes were dotted with Hudsonia ericoides in full bloom.

  • Botanists studied the habitat preferences of Hudsonia ericoides along the Atlantic coast.

  • Efforts are being made to protect Hudsonia ericoides due to its limited geographic range.

Synonyms

golden heather
vsHudsonia ericoides
  • US
9.6

A North American plant that stays green all year and has small yellow flowers

is the formal botanical name used in scientific classification contexts

Surface Forms

Hudsonia ericoides singular
Hudsonia ericoides plural

Morphology

Hudsonia + ericoides

This is a botanical binomial combining the genus name 'Hudsonia' (which already indicates a small shrub found in sandy areas) with a Latin species epithet 'ericoides' that is not glossed here. The construction is partly compositional (it denotes a Hudsonia species), but understanding the descriptive sense of 'ericoides' requires knowledge of taxonomic/Latin morphology ('-oides' = resembling) that a B1 learner typically lacks, so the full meaning is only partially inferable.

Etymology

Hudsonia ericoides mixes a name and a description: Hudsonia honors the botanist William Hudson, and ericoides means 'like heather'. So the name pictures 'Hudson's heather-like plant' and helps you remember it is a small evergreen with heathlike leaves and yellow flowers on sandy soil.