Sonoran Desert Wildfire Plants (July 2020 EcoQuest Guide)

This is a guide to Sonoran Desert plants that can possibly recover/resprout, plants that can reestablish themselves by seed, and plants that can be planted to help create natural environmental conditions for other plants to begin to grow after a fire.


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jojoba 1
Simmondsia chinensis
catclaw acacia 2
Senegalia greggii
whitethorn acacia 3
Vachellia constricta
pink fairy-duster 4
Calliandra eriophylla
banana yucca 5
Yucca baccata
creosote bush 6
Larrea tridentata
desert ironwood 7
Olneya tesota
desert broom 8
Baccharis sarothroides
globemallows 9
Sphaeralcea
triangle-leaf bursage 10
Ambrosia deltoidea
brittlebush 11
Encelia farinosa
broom snakeweed 12
Gutierrezia sarothrae
wirelettuce 13
Stephanomeria
white ratany 15
Krameria bicolor
Engelmann's prickly pear 16
Opuntia engelmannii
Graham's fishhook cactus 20
Mammillaria grahamii
California barrel cactus 21
Ferocactus cylindraceus
Engelmann's hedgehog cactus 22
Echinocereus engelmannii
saguaro 23
Carnegiea gigantea

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