A close-up picture of Frogfruit, Phyla nodiflora (also called Lippia, though it is no longer a Lippia) with a US penny for scale. The coin is between two flower clusters, with the individual flowers about the size of Abraham Lincoln's ear on the coin. The flowers are white with a yellow center, tiny, arranged in dense clusters around a purple core of compact bracts. The leaves cover the ground over old growth, each leaf a lime green and lightly fuzzy in extremely short, stiff plant hairs. The leaf shape is a slightly blunted lance shape with a moderately toothed edge. The leaves visible seem to be sprouting from old growth trailing stems that have become white with age.

Oh, this one's special. Not a sage, not tasty, but so ornamental. Phyla nodiflora, formally a Lippia, is a very cute groundcover that kinda looks like clover with a very long blooming season and an odd history in landscaping 🧵

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