Sabal etonia Highlight and low-growing selections have long

and low-growing selections have long been used as groundcovers and mass plantings where turf is impractical

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somewhat glaucous foliage

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the Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica) of the Caspian forests

Sabal etonia Highlight and low-growing selections have longSabal etonia, the scrub palmetto, is a small fan palm found nowhere in the world but Florida, where the palm is a signature of the sand pine scrub, most abundantly along the ancient dunes of the Lake Wales Ridge. The specific epithet etonia comes from the Etonia scrub of Putnam County, the country where the species was first collected, so the botanical name carries a Florida place with it. Most of the trunk lives underground. Scrub palmetto usually