dwarf palmetto

American  

noun

1. an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.

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Nashville’s local palms, the dwarf palmetto and Sabal minor, might, at best, yield a fluffy lowercase m.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2023

Among the trees were bastard rubber-trees, and dwarf palmetto; if the latter grew more than a few feet high their tops were torn and dishevelled by the wind.

From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore

Tall pines, a thin growth, stood wherever we turned our eyes, and the ground was covered with the dwarf palmetto, and the whortleberry, which is here an evergreen.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

The dwarf palmetto, which forms such a characteristic growth in Florida, extends northward in the Mississippi basin to the southern border of the Ozark uplift.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)

The soil across which we traveled at first was a dry, dazzling white sand, over which, was scattered a growth of dwarf palmetto.

From The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 by MacCauley, Clay