These plant species grow in the salt spray and loose sand of beaches and the moist lowland slopes of volcanoes. They flourish in poor soils and under very harsh climatic conditions.
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'Aki 'Aki grass (Sporobolus virginicus) or Seashore Rush Grass growing around a sand crab's burrow, Kanaha Beach, north Maui. A spreading hardy grass that thrives on sandy & rocky shores. Indigenous to Hawaii and tropics worldwide.
Mature seed head of Swollen Finger Grass (Chloris barbata), Ukumehame, west Maui.
Foliage and flower of 'Ohelo kai (Lycium sandwicense), Ukumehame Gulch, west Maui.
'Ohelo kai (Lycium sandwicense), Ukumehame Gulch, west Maui.
'Ohelo kai (Lycium sandwicense), Ukumehame Gulch, west Maui.
'Ohelo kai (Lycium sandwicense) creepers on the bare lava flows at the Dragon's Teeth, Kapalua, west Maui.
Indian Tobacco (or Tree Tobacco), Makahala in Hawaiian (Nicotiana glauca), Papaula Beach, east of Kahului, north Maui.
An Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis), Ohe'o Gulch, Kipahulu Unit of Haleakala National Park, east Maui.
A young sprout of Sesbania tomentosa ("Ohai" in Hawaiian), a member of the Legume family. It will eventually grow into a ground-hugging schrub with branches as long as 45 feet, or a 25-foot-tall tree. Officially listed as endangered in 1994. Once common on all of the Hawaiian Islands, it now only grows on sand dunes and pockets of sandy volcanic soil in a few isolated locations. Kanaha Beach, north Maui.
'Ohelo kai (Lycium sandwicense), Ukumehame Gulch, west Maui.
'Ohelo kai (Lycium sandwicense), Ukumehame Gulch, west Maui.
'Ohelo kai (Lycium sandwicense), Ukumehame Gulch, west Maui.
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