Friday, September 28, 2012

Kiawah Island, South Carolina, USA

This dune stabilizer is known as sea oats, but its Latin name is much more fun to say:  uniola paniculata. Its job is shared with a variety of other deep-rooted, salt-tolerant, foliage-filled plants whose task it is to hold the dune in place, baffle the wind, and protect America's elite from devastating loss during hurricane season. [2012]

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