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- Ambrosia dumosa (category Flora of the Sonoran Desert)Ambrosia dumosa, the burro-weed or white bursage, is a common constituent of the creosote-bush scrub community throughout the Mojave desert of California, Nevada...3 KB (325 words) - 13:40, 5 August 2007
- Encelia farinosa (category Flora of the Sonoran Desert)Brittlebush, is a common desert shrub of northwestern Mexico and southwestern United States. Its common name comes from the brittleness of its stems. It is also...2 KB (158 words) - 08:56, 10 April 2007
- Salvia columbariae (category Flora of the Sonoran Desert)to 10 mm long and the upper lip is unlobed but has 2 (sometimes 3) awns. The lower lip is about twice the size of the upper lip. The flower color can be...3 KB (303 words) - 10:39, 5 May 2009
- Saguaro (category Flora of the Sonoran Desert)open in the morning. The characteristics of the flower are geared toward pollination by the bats: the nocturnal opening of the flowers, maturation of pollen...6 KB (574 words) - 14:48, 6 October 2007
- happens when the plant is 30 to 90 years old. Eventually the old crown dies and the new one becomes a clone of the previous plant, composed of many separate...6 KB (779 words) - 05:31, 24 January 2008
- Ambrosia ambrosioides (category Flora of Mexico)Richard; Mary B. Moser. (1985). People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Raymond M. Turner, Janice...2 KB (246 words) - 13:39, 5 August 2007
- Opuntia (section Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture)from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus (from the resemblance to the ball-and-paddle...32 KB (941 words) - 22:17, 23 February 2010