Plants & Nature
Thrift
Tags: Flowers Description: Thrift lights up rock crevices and dry coastal meadows with its pink flowers.
Tags: Flowers Description: Thrift lights up rock crevices and dry coastal meadows with its pink flowers. It copes with the dry conditions because it has a strong root that can bore far down into rock crevices and sand to where the soil is more moist. At the same time, its narrow, grass-like leaves are fleshy, much as a cactus is, so if it is really dry for a while, it can draw on the water reserves held in the leaves. The pink flowers sit in small heads on top of a long, slightly stiff stem. Thrift is also called strandnellik. Use: Since they tolerate drying out and also smell good, the fine heads are perfect as a buttonhole flower. Habitat type: Coast Edible: No Written by: LĂŠrke Stewart
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Thrift, or strandnellik as it is also called. Photo: Arnstein RĂžnning, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons