Ice Plant Flowers
This South African native succulent perennial with its very attractive bright pink and/or yellow flowers has found its way to both California and Florida thanks to the ornamental plant industry and has particularly found a foothold along Southern California highways, earning it the nickname "highway ice plant." Originally used as a soil stabilizer due to its matting, ground-cover nature it has unexpectedly spread into several sensitive ecological habitats such as coastal communities and desert dune habitats where it quickly outgrows and outcompetes threatened and endangered plants. This one was found growing in a sprawling mat across the sandy beach in Los Angeles, California next to the Del Rey Lagoon.
- Copyright
- ©2015
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 10.0MB
- Keywords
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Aizoaceae, Angiosperms, C. edulis, California, Carpobrotus, Carpobrotus edulis, Caryophyllales, Core eudicots, Del Rey Lagoon, Del Rey Lagoon Park, Dicotyledonous, Eudicots, Ficoidaceae, Hottentot-fig, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Mesembryanthemum, Mesembryanthemum edule, Plantae, Playa Del Rey, beach, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, dicot, edible, fig, fig-marigold, flora, flower, flowers, fresh, fuchsia, green, highway ice plant, highway iceplant, hotnotsvy, ice plant, iceplant, invasive, magenta, natural, naturalised, naturalized, nature, non-native, not native, perennial, pigface, pink, plant, plants, sand, shrub, sour fig, southwest, spring, suurvy, wild, wildflower, wildflowers, yellow, LA, L.A.
- Contained in galleries
- Pink Wildflowers, Aizoaceae (Ice Plant Family)
