What kind of plants will grow in Silica Sand?

Question

What kind of plants will grow in Silica Sand?

Answer 1

Many salt-tolerant tropicals will grow is sand. Try Cocos nucifera, coccoloba uvifera, cryptostesgia grandiflora, and many grasses, to name  few.

Answer 2

Some examples:

A SANDSTONE QUARRY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO:

Betula populifolia, Vaccinium corymbosum, V. macrocarpon and Sphagnum teres are the dominant species,

Vaccinium macrocarpon and Typha latifolia serve as substrates. Sphagnum teres and S. recurvum are the major consolidating species.

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811...

"In the north and west UK, where a combination of a wetter climate and a more widespread occurrence of silica sand encourages the development of more extensive areas of acidic dune vegetation. In such conditions, dune communities tend to be dominated by heather Calluna vulgaris and crowberry Empetrum nigrum"

http://www.jncc.gov.uk/ProtectedSites/SA...

On the silica sand dunes of Bassendean, Australia are to find shrublike Banksia species and tuarts, a small Eucalyptus species:

http://www.csbp.com.au/downloads/corpora...