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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 ...
The Southwest is no stranger to sweltering conditions, and desert plants and trees are drought-resistant and heat-tolerant. Arid, harsh environments are where they thrive.
It flowers abundantly with tiny green blooms on separate male and female plants. [1] Native to the Sonoran Desert of northwestern Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora) and the Southwestern United States (southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas), it is common in gravelly dry soils and disturbed areas. [3] [1]
Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Desert Wildflower Blooms — homepage, with focus article links. Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: The Desert in Bloom; Sonoran Desert Florilegium Program — homepage: botanical illustrations. Desert USA: Desert Wildflower Field Guide — Wildflower pictures sorted by Color
[1]: 2–3 The flora of the Colorado Desert are influenced by the environment of the very dry and hot lower areas of the Colorado River valley, which may be barren, treeless, and generally have no large cacti. [1]: 3 Flora of the Arizona Upland are comparatively lush, with trees and large columnar cacti that can withstand winter frosts.
L. tridentata in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Larrea tridentata is a prominent species in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts of western North America, and its range includes those and other regions in portions of southeastern California, Arizona, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, New Mexico, and Texas in the United States, and Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Zacatecas ...
The flowering desert involves more than 200 species of flower, [7] most of them endemic to the Atacama region. The different species germinate at different times through the flowering desert period. Some of the most common species include: [8] Garra de león (Bomarea ovallei) Pata de guanaco (Cistanthe grandiflora) Añañuca (Rhodolirium montanum)
Lycium californicum is a spreading shrub in the nightshade family known by the common names California boxthorn and California desert-thorn.. This plant, as Lycium californicum var. californicum, is native to the Coastal sage scrub and coastal bluffs along the coast of Southern California to northern Baja California and the northern and southern Channel Islands.