This low shrub has distinctive egg-shaped orange berries about 1/4" long. The flowers are small and pale lavender, not very showy. This particular patch was about 3 to 4 ft tall, and about 25 ft across. The berries are eaten by birds and mammals. In the first photo a Rock Squirrel was in the patch feeding.

This was in an open stretch of the bosque on the eastside, south of the South Valley flood channel. Probably an old burn area. Sandy soil, exposed to full sun and wind.

Day was clear and hot.