Woolly Stemodia
Stemodia lanataAlso called Wooly Stemodia
Woolly Stemodia is a groundcover native to Central Texas that grows 0.3–0.8 ft tall and 3 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water. Blooms white, purple and violet in Apr–Nov. Deer rarely browse it. Good for butterflies.
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From our guide
Village of the HillsLow spreading mat of intensely silver-white woolly foliage with small purple flowers.
Why it works here
The brightest silver groundcover available here, and it thrives in reflected heat and pure sand or gravel.
Watch out
Requires perfect drainage — it melts in wet ground. Freeze damage in a hard winter; it returns.
The facts
6 sources- Type
- Groundcover
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3+ hrs)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 0.3–0.8 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Bloom
- Apr–Nov · white, purple, violet
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Soil
- Recorded on calcareous, dry, saline, sand, well drained
- Deer
- High — deer rarely browse it. Woolly foliage ignored
- Wildlife
- Supports butterflies
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
7 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
In the Village of the Hills guide, but not on the grower stock lists we read yet. Ask a native-plant nursery.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.