Flowers of the Southwest Deserts
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About This Book
Field guide to over 100 of the most common flowering desert plants of the Southwest, emphasizing those likely to be found in National Park Service areas. Detailed line drawings for identification.
Chapters (106)
- FLOWERS OF THE SOUTHWEST DESERTS
- HOW TO USE THIS BOOKLET
- PLANT NAMES Be Serious About Plant Names—But Not Too Serious
- THE DESERT—WHAT AND WHERE IS IT?
- NATIONAL PARKS AND MONUMENTS AS WILDFLOWER SANCTUARIES
- DESERT PLANTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Carnegiea gigantea
- Peniocereus greggi
- Datura meteloides
- Argemone
- Hesperocallis undulata
- Rafinesquia neomexicana
- Nerium oleander
- Nemacladus glanduliferus
- Cuscuta indecora
- Yucca brevifolia
- Yucca torreyi Yucca schidigera Yucca arizonica
- Dasylirion wheeleri Agave palmeri Yucca elata Nolina microcarpa
- Clematis ligusticifolia Clematis drummondi
- Phragmites communis
- Baccharis glutinosa
- Plantago purshi
- Opuntia leptocaulis Opuntia ramosissima Opuntia bigelovi
- Phoradendron californicum
- Nicotiana trigonophylla Nicotiana glauca
- Calycoseris wrighti Calycoseris parryi
- Brickellia coulteri Brickellia californica
- Zinnia pumila
- Acacia greggi
- Ephedra trifurca E. antisyphilitica
- Heterotheca subaxillaris
- Cercidium floridum Cercidium microphyllum
- Polanisia trachysperma
- Tribulus terrestris
- Kallstroemia grandiflora
- Larrea tridentata
- Wislizenia refracta
- Oenothera primiveris O. brevipes O. deltoides O. cardiophylla
- Berberis trifoliata Berberis haematocarpa
- Lesquerella gordoni
- Cucurbita digitata Cucurbita foetidissima
- Amsinckia tessellata
- Flourensia cernua
- Prosopis pubescens Prosopis juliflora
- Baeria chrysostoma variety gracilis
- Enceliopsis argophylla
- Geraea canescens
- Encelia farinosa
- Baileya multiradiata
- Aplopappus heterophyllus Aplopappus gracilis
- Psilostrophe cooperi
- Cassia lindheimeriana Cassia bauhinoides
- Caesalpinia gilliesi
- Opuntia engelmanni Opuntia basilaris
- Ferocactus wislizeni
- Agave lechuguilla
- Calochortus kennedyi Calochortus flexuosus
- Eschscholtzia mexicana
- Martynia arenaria
- Hymenoclea monogyra
- Fouquieria splendens
- Allionia incarnata
- Sphaeralcea ambigua
- Calliandra eriophylla
- Eriogonum deflexum
- Tamarix pentandra
- Phlox tenuifolia Phlox mesoleuca
- Chilopsis linearis
- Lemaireocereus thurberi Lophocereus schotti
- Mammillaria microcarpa
- Gilia longiflora Gilia filifolia
- Phacelia crenulata
- Lycium andersoni Lycium pallidum
- Leucophyllum frutescens
- Erodium texanum Erodium cicutarium
- Olneya tesota
- Aster tephrodes Aster abatus
- Pentstemon pseudospectabilis Pentstemon fendleri
- Lupinus sparsiflorus Lupinus havardi
- Orobanche ludoviciana
- Astragalus mollissimus
- Solanum elaeagnifolium S. rostratum
- Heliotropium curassavicum
- Pluchea sericea
- Mimulus bigelovi
- Nama demissum
- Boerhaavia caribaea
- Orthocarpus purpurascens
- Opuntia spinosior Opuntia fulgida Opuntia acanthocarpa
- Cirsium neomexicanum Cirsium undulatum
- Abronia villosa
- Echinocereus fendleri Echinocereus rigidissimus
- Dichelostemma pulchellum
- Evolvulus arizonicus
- Salvia carnosa Salvia columbariae
- Delphinium amabile D. scaposum
- Dalea mollis Dalea spinosa Dalea formosa
- Rumex hymenosepalus
- Simmondsia chinensis
- Asclepias subulata Asclepias erosa
- Koeberlinia spinosa Holacantha emoryi
- Franseria dumosa
- Suaeda torreyana
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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