Ammobium

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 Ammobium subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Ammobium (Greek, living in sand). Compositae. Hardy herb, cult. as an everlasting or immortelle.

Florets perfect, yellow, surrounded by a dry, silvery white involucre, and subtended by chaffy scales; pappus of 2 bristles and 2 teeth.—Two or 3 Australian species. Commonly grown as an annual, but seeds are sometimes sown in Sept., and the plant treated as a biennial. Of easiest culture, the seeds being sown where the plants are to grow. In the N., sow seeds in spring. Cut the fls. before they are fully expanded, and hang in a dry, shady place. They will then remain white.


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