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  2. List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name

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    The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran ...

  3. List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers - Wikipedia

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    Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Flora of the Sonoran Desert Region; U.S. Wildflowers Reference List: Arizona — Reference List of websites for Arizona Wildflower Identification. Pima Community College. Common Wildflowers of Tucson. Floras - Arizona Native Plant Society

  4. Flora of the Colorado Desert - Wikipedia

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    Blooming cholla cactus with bird's nest in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Flora of the Colorado Desert, located in Southern California. The Colorado Desert is a sub-region in the Sonoran Desert ecoregion of southwestern North America. It is also known as the Low Desert, in contrast to the higher elevation Mojave Desert or High Desert, to its ...

  5. Linanthus demissus - Wikipedia

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    Linanthus demissus (humble gilia or desertsnow) is a small flowering plant found in the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States, from southeastern California east to Arizona and southern Utah.

  6. Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone - Wikipedia

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    Alpine plants have many adaptations to aridity and intense sunlight in common with desert plants. [5] Alpine plants often have gray appearance from hairs covering the leaves, which reflect the intense sunlight, and protect from winds that cause high rates of water loss through transpiration.

  7. Desert bloom - Wikipedia

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    Desert bloom in Namaqualand, South Africa. A desert bloom is a climatic phenomenon that occurs in various deserts around the world. The phenomenon consists of the blossoming of a wide variety of flowers during early-mid spring in years when rainfall is unusually high.

  8. Fouquieria splendens - Wikipedia

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    Fouquieria splendens (commonly known as ocotillo / ɒ k ə ˈ t iː j oʊ / (Latin American Spanish:), but also referred to as buggywhip, coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, desert coral, Jacob's staff, Jacob cactus, and vine cactus) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States (southern California, southern ...

  9. List of flora of the Mojave Desert region - Wikipedia

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    The flora are arranged in several sublists with different organizations for the convenience of encyclopedia users with different purposes - alphabetically by scientific name, alphabetically by plant family then by scientific name, by growth pattern (e.g., tree, shrub, perennial, annual, etc.) then alphabetically by scientific name, by flower ...