Trees & Shrubs of Fort Bowie National Historic Site

Rhus microphylla (Littleleaf Sumac, Desert Sumac, Correosa, or Agritos) is a species of sumac in the family Anacardiaceae, native to North America, in the southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico, from central and western Texas, southern New Mexico, central and northern regions of the Mexican Altiplano-(Mexican Plateau), and extreme southeastern Arizona of the Madrean Sky Islands. less ↑

Rhus trilobata is a shrub in the sumac genus (Rhus) with the common names sourberry, skunkbush, and three-leaf sumac. It is native to the western half of Canada and the Western United States, from the Great Plains to California and south through Arizona extending into northern Mexico. It can be found from deserts to mountain peaks up to about 7,000 feet in elevation. less ↑

Baccharis salicifolia is a blooming shrub native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico, as well as parts of South America. Its usual common name is mule fat; it is also called seepwillow or water-wally. This is a large bush with sticky foliage which bears plentiful small, fuzzy, pink or red-tinged white flowers which are highly attractive to butterflies. The long pointed leaves may be toothed. It is most common near water... less ↑

Baccharis sarothroides is a species of flowering shrub known by the common names broom baccharis, desertbroom,greasewood,rosin-bush and groundsel in English and "escoba amarga" or "romerillo" in Spanish. This is a spreading, woody shrub usually sticky with glandular secretions along the primarily leafless green stems. The small, thick leaves are a few centimeters long and are absent much of the year, giving the shrub a spindly, twiggy appearance. It flowers abundantly with tiny green blooms on separate... less ↑

Baccharis sergiloides is a species of baccharis known by the common name desert baccharis. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in wet areas in dry desert and woodland habitat, such as streambeds. This is a shrub producing many erect, branching stems approaching two meters in maximum height. The leaves are mostly oval shape and up to about 3 centimetres (1.2 in) long. The leaves generally fall by the time... less ↑

Ericameria laricifolia is a species of flowering shrub in the daisy family known by the common name turpentine bush, or turpentine-brush. This plant is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in desert scrub and woodland. This shrub reaches one half to one meter in height, is generally hairless, somewhat glandular, and aromatic. It sometimes has naked stems at the base but the upper branches are densely foliated in needlelike, pointed... less ↑

Ericameria nauseosa (formerly Chrysothamnus nauseosus), commonly known as Chamisa, rubber rabbitbrush, and gray rabbitbrush, is a shrub of the genus Ericameria that grows in the arid regions of western North America. Two subspecies have been described, nauseosa (the gray form with 14 varieties) and consimilis (the green form with 8 varieties). less ↑

Flourensia cernua is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the English common name tarbush and the Spanish common names hojasé, hojasén, and hoja ancha. It is native to the Chihuahuan Desert of North America, where it occurs in the US states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and the Mexican states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas. less ↑

Gutierrezia microcephala is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names sticky snakeweed, threadleaf snakeweed, threadleaf broomweed, and smallhead snakeweed. It is a subshrub native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, and can be found in arid grassland and desert sand dune habitats. It can be toxic to livestock in large quantities, due to the presence of saponins and high concentrations of selenium. less ↑

Gutierrezia sarothrae is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names broom snakeweed, broomweed, snakeweed, and matchweed. It is a subshrub native to much of the western half of North America, from western Canada to central Mexico, and can be found in a number of arid, grassland, and mountain habitats. It can be toxic to livestock in large quantities, due mainly to the presence of saponins. less ↑

Isocoma tenuisecta, commonly called burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, or burrow goldenweed is a small, flowering perennial herb, native to the Sonoran Desert. It grows 1 to 3 feet tall, and has small yellow flowers growing at the top of woody stems. It flowers in September through November. The leaves are glandular and lobed. The old flowers turn dry and tan and remain on the plant. less ↑

Senecio flaccidus, formerly recorded as Senecio douglasii (in honor of the botanist David Douglas) member of the daisy family and genus Senecio also known as Threadleaf Groundsel (and Bush Senecio, Creek Senecio, Shrubby Butterweed, Comb Butterweed, Smooth Threadleaf Ragwort, Mono Ragwort, Douglas Ragwort, Douglas Groundsel, Sand Wash Groundsel, Felty Groundsel, Old Man, Yerba Cana, Squawweed or Cenicillo) is a native of the southwestern Great Plains of North America. less ↑

Chilopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants containing the single species Chilopsis linearis. It is a shrub or tree native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. The common name is desert willow or desert-willow because of its willow-like leaves, but it is a member of the bignonia family, Bignoniaceae. It is commonly seen in washes and along riverbanks at elevations below 1800m in its range. less ↑

Celtis ehrenbergiana, called the desert hackberry or spiny hackberry is a plant species that has long been called C. pallida by many authors, including in the Flora of North America It is native to Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and Texas and to Latin America as far south as northern Argentina. It grows in dry locations such as deserts, brushlands, canyons, mesas and grasslands. less ↑

Arctostaphylos pungens, with the common name pointleaf manzanita, is a species of manzanita. It is native to the Southwestern United States and to northern and central Mexico, where it grows in chaparral and woodland habitats, and on desert ridges. Arctostaphylos pungens can be seen growing at Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico at an elevation of about 6000 feet. less ↑

Acacia angustissima (Prairie acacia, White ball acacia) is a perennial, deciduous, shrub or tree in the Fabaceae family native to Central America and the United States. It is also found in South America, India and Pakistan. Other common names for it include Carboncillo, Timbe, Timbre,Fern Acacia and Prairie wattle. It grows 1m to 4m in height having whitish, 1.3 cm diameter spherical flowers from June through September. "Angustissima" in Latin means "narrowest," describing the look of the... less ↑

Amorpha fruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) known by several common names, including desert false indigo, false indigo-bush, and bastard indigobush. It is found wild in most of the contiguous United States, southeastern Canada, and northern Mexico, but it is probably naturalized in the northeastern and northwestern portion of its current range. The species is also present as an introduced species in Europe, Asia, and other continents. It is often... less ↑

Prosopis glandulosa, commonly known as honey mesquite, is a species of small to medium-sized flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is native to the Southwestern United States and Mexico, growing as far north as southern Kansas and as far east as the eastern fifth of Texas, where average annual rainfall is in excess of 40 inches (100 cm). It can be part of the Mesquite Bosque plant association community. less ↑

Senegalia greggii is a species of Senegalia native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, from the extreme south of Utah (where, at 37°10' N it is the northernmost naturally occurring Senegalia species anywhere in the world) south through southern Nevada, southeast California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas to Baja California, Sinaloa and Nuevo León in Mexico. less ↑

Quercus grisea, commonly known as the gray oak, shin oak or scrub oak, is a deciduous or evergreen shrub or medium sized tree in the white oak group and is endemic to the south central montane regions of North America. It hybridizes with four other oak species where the ranges of each overlap, the Arizona white oak (Q. arizonica), the Gambel oak (Q. gambelii), the Mohr shin oak (Q. mohriana) and the sandpaper oak (Q. pungens). less ↑

Quercus hypoleucoides, the Silverleaf Oak or the Whiteleaf Oak can normally be found west to Arizona, east to Texas, southwest of New Mexico, and south to Mexico. Quercus hypoleucoides, though usually seen as a shrub, can be found to be a full-sized tree, 30 feet tall in areas where it receives lots of water. The Quercus hypoleucoides can be distinguished from other oaks by its lanceolate leaves which are dark green on top but silver white... less ↑

Quercus pungens, commonly known as the sandpaper oak or scrub oak, is an evergreen or sub-evergreen shrub or small tree in the white oak group and is endemic to south central North America. There is one recognised variety, Quercus pungens var. vaseyana, the Vasey shin oak. Sandpaper oak hybridizes with gray oak, Quercus grisea, in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and Texas. less ↑

Garrya flavescens is a species of flowering shrub known by the common name ashy silktassel. It is native to the southwestern United States, and Baja California and Chihuahua in Mexico, where it grows in many habitats, including dry forest, desert, and chaparral. This is a shrub reaching a maximum height approaching three meters. The leaves are oval-shaped, up to 7 or 8 centimeters long and about half as wide. The underside may be hairless to very... less ↑

Juglans major (literally, the larger walnut) is a walnut tree which grows to 50 ft tall (15 m) with a DBH of up to 2 feet (0.61 m) at elevations of 1000–7000 ft in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Common names include Arizona Walnut, Arizona Black Walnut (as it belongs to the "black walnuts" section Juglans sect. Rhysocaryon), and the generic Spanish term for walnuts nogal. less ↑

Krameria erecta is a species of rhatany known by several common names, including Pima rhatany, purple heather, and littleleaf rhatany. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in dry areas such as desert flats and chaparral slopes. This is a small, tangled shrub under a meter in height with blunt, thorny branches covered in silky hairs and fuzzy linear leaves. The shrub flowers in the spring and again in... less ↑

Morus celtidifolia, the Texas mulberry, is a plant species native to Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and much of Latin America. It the USA, it grows in canyons and on slopes, usually near streams, from 200–2200 m (700–7300 feet) elevation. It is very often referred to as "Morus microphylla," including in Flora of North America, but recent studies suggest that these names are synonymous. less ↑

Menodora scabra is a species of flowering plant in the olive family known by the common name rough menodora. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in varied mountain, plateau, and desert habitat. It is a small, multibranched subshrub producing several upright stems no more than 30 centimeters tall. It is coated in rough hairs and short, woolly fibers. The leaves are oblong or oval in shape, smooth along... less ↑

Ziziphus obtusifolia is a species of flowering plant in the buckthorn family known by several common names, including lotebush, graythorn, gumdrop tree, and Texas buckthorn. It is native to the southwestern United States and much of Mexico, where it grows in shrubby and scrubby desert habitat, grasslands and prairie, woodlands, and other habitat types. It can be found among desert plants such as honey mesquite, smooth mesquite, ocotillo and creosote. This is a shrub with many... less ↑

Salix bonplandiana (Bonpland willow), (Span.: ahuejote, sauce, ahujote, and huejote), is a perennial species of willow tree native to southern and southwest Mexico and extending into central Guatemala; in western Mexico it is a tree of the Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera, but also occurring in other small locales, for example Baja California Sur, northern Sonora, San Luis Potosi, etc. A core disjunct area occurs in central and southeast Arizona, in advantageous locales, especially associated with higher... less ↑

Salix exigua (sandbar willow, narrowleaf willow, or coyote willow; syn. S. argophylla, S. hindsiana, S. interior, S. linearifolia, S. luteosericea, S. malacophylla, S. nevadensis, and S. parishiana) is a species of willow native to most of North America except for the southeast and far north, occurring from Alaska east to New Brunswick, and south to northern Mexico. less ↑

Sideroxylon lanuginosum is a shrub or small tree of the family Sapotaceae. It is native to the Sun Belt and Midwest of the United States as well as Northeastern Mexico. Common names include Gum Bully, Black Haw, Chittamwood, Chittimwood, Shittamwood, False Buckthorn, Gum Bumelia, Gum Elastic, Gum Woolybucket, Woolybucket Bumelia, Wooly Buckthorn, Wooly Bumelia, Ironwood and Coma. less ↑