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Asters and Allies (Tribe Astereae)Observer
jher15Description
Rubber Rabbitbrush is a shrub with flexible stems and alternate leaves. There are tubular yellow flowers arranged in dense clusters at the apex of the shrub.
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Desert Marigold (Baileya multiradiata)Observer
jher15Description
Desert marigold is formed as a basal rossete. In the apex of the plant there are bright yellow flowers
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Threadleaf Groundsel (Senecio flaccidus)Observer
jher15Description
In the apex of the plant there are yellow flowers. The plant has grayish needle-like leaves
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Field and Button Mushrooms (Genus Agaricus)Observer
jher15Description
Mushroom has a white cap
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Yuccas (Genus Yucca)Observer
jher15Description
Mojave Yucca is an evergreen shrub or it also can grow into a small tree. Mohave yucca has uptight branches and bayonet-like leaves. The trunk is of a grayish color.
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Asters and Allies (Tribe Astereae)Observer
jher15Description
Interior Goldenbush is a shrub with yellow flower heads at the end of long leafless and unbranched stem.
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Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)Observer
jher15Description
Honey bee has a orangish-yellow rings on the abdomen (black part of the body). The head of the bee is black
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Sennas (Genus Senna)Observer
jher15Description
Thornless shrub with pinnate leaves. Leaflets are elliptical
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Prickly Pears (Genus Opuntia)Observer
jher15Description
Oputia or also known as Prickly pear is a succulent cactus. It is armed with two types of spines. One kind of spines are smooth and large. The other type of spines are small with hairlike prickles called glochids.
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Wheeler Sotol (Dasylirion wheeleri)Observer
jher15Description
Dasylirion wheeleri or known as common sotol is an evergreen shrub with a single unbranched trunk . It has a slender leave that is long, gray-green and with a toothed margin. The leaves radiate from the center of the plant's apex in all directions.
Dasylirion wheeleri grows a flowering stem above the foliage
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Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)Observer
jher15Description
Switchgrass is an upright, clump forming grass.
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Mountain Sage (Salvia regla)Observer
jher15Description
The Orange Mountain Sage has opposite, decussate and deciduous leaves. In its flowering season the plant grows orange flowers. The plants grow in well-drained soil.
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Beardtongues (Genus Penstemon)Observer
jher15Description
It is an evergreen shrub. In the flowering season the plant exhibits lavender long tubular flowers.
It has hairless, lower stems that are woody. The leaves are lance-shaped with pointed tips. The plant grows in well-draned laces at low to alpine elevations
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Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana)Observer
jher15Description
The Texas persimmon is a shrub or small tree. It has gray colored wood and it can be multi-truncked. It reaches up to 10 to 15 feet tall.
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Cenizo (Leucophyllum frutescens)Observer
jher15Description
The cenizo shrub( Leucophyllum frutescens) is also called barometer bush or rain bush. It is sometimes call that way because the shrub predicts precipitation (rain) by burting into bloom.
The Cenizo is a gray colored shrub with stellate covering the leaves. The shrub has bilaterally simetrical flowers and it can reach up to 8 ft in height. It does well in rocky, well drained soils.
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Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)Observer
jher15Description
Is a grayish-green spineless shrub. It grows up to one foot tall and one to two feet wide and it is round in shape. It has leaves in a oblong shaped,with margins that curl under. During November through February the plant turns from its grayish-green color to an autumn color, crimson red.
These plant is capable of blooming throughout the year
This plant lives really well in highly saline soils and often in rocky or eroding and reddish in color
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Fourwing Saltbush (Atriplex canescens)Observer
jher15Description
Four-wing saltbush are shrubs that grow up to an average of 2 to 3 feet tall but sometimes they can reach up to 15 feet tall in height. It has many branches, some of its twigs are spiny. An adaptation that these plants use to prevent water loss is that they have white scales called scurf. The plant have long linear shaped leaves and are in small clusters from alternate nodes that are covered with small scales. These plants are dioecious. Meaning that you can male and female flowers are found on separate plants
These shrubs are found mostly in alkaline soils, gravelly washes or sandy soils.
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Mexican Palo Verde (Parkinsonia aculeata)Observer
jher15Description
The Palo verde is a spiny green deciduous tree. It can reach up to 20 feet in height. They have short flowering season and display yellowish dull flowers that attracts different pollinators. The palo verde leaves are twice pinnate.
The palo verde displays a green bark in response that during a warm season and the coming of the fall the tree tends to drop its leaves.
Palo verde also serves as a nursing plant for different plant species such as the Saguaru cacti
Palo verde is native to the Sonaran Deserts in the southwestern United states and northwestern Mexico.
