Sandy plains and dry grassland with cover typically in dwarf palmetto vegetation.

It also displays 30 cold-hardy palm species, including numerous cultivars of dwarf palmetto.

By working with warmer microclimates, gardeners can push the envelope, growing needle palms and dwarf palmettos in Zone 6, he said.

From eastern North Carolina down throughout Florida, bald cypress may be accompanied in forests by dwarf palmetto.

Suddenly, as if impelled by a spring Biggles leapt to his feet and in six quick strides reached a clump of dwarf palmetto scrub.

Dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor)

The park is named for the Dwarf Palmetto (Sabal minor), which grows abundantly in the park.

The road passed between newly tilled fields and forests of long-leaf pine, oak, dwarf palmetto and sweet-scented myrtle.

Sabal minor, a dwarf palmetto that it forms a subterranean trunk, is the most cold hardy, able to take short periods with near 0 F temperatures.

Gardeners in the central Tennessee and Kentucky swatch of the Cumberland Plateau report that the native dwarf palmetto, too, is coming back.

The dwarf palmetto, or Sabal minor, ranges from eastern Texas to southeastern Oklahoma and the southeast corner of Virginia.

Sabal minor, commonly known as the Dwarf Palmetto or Bush palmetto, is one of about 14 species of palmetto palm (Arecaceae, genus Sabal).

The main branches reach out horizontally until they come together over the driveway, embowering it throughout its entire length, while each branch is adorned like a garden with ferns, flowers, grasses, and dwarf palmettos.

Other plants such as the Dwarf Palmetto and Wax Myrtle and submerged aquatic plants such as Vallisneria and Ruppia are native to Louisiana wetlands.

A botanist at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he grows dwarf palmettos, needle palms, cabbage palms and Chinese windmill palms in temperatures that can hover just above zero.

The scattered dwarf palmettos, pines, and locust trees of the heights gave way to maples and poplars, walnuts and oaks, and finally to a deep humid forest with sour-gum, bald cypress, thickets of bamboo, and huge old tulip trees more than four meters in diameter.

The priest-chronicler Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix described it in 1721 as a place of a hundred wretched hovels in a malarious wet thicket of willows and dwarf palmettos, infested by serpents and alligators; he seems to have been the first, however, to predict for it an imperial future.