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Okie Dokie Artichokie
The kidneywood found in SE Arizona, SW New Mexico and down into Sonora is Eysenhardtia orthocarpa. It’s common in the Mule Mountains around Bisbee...
Borderlands Jaguar
I originally wrote Borderlands Jaguar while driving up to Tucson to do a presentation for the Center for Biological Diversity (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/). I wrote it...
Anemone tuberosa
Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s probably just...
Varmints in the grassland
Tumbleweed and careless weed are here to stay and though careless weed is an Arizona native (Amaranthus palmeri) it certainly appears, at least to...
Desert Mule Deer
I think I should have called this show, “infundibula, blah, blah, blah”, and though I love to poke fun at the terms, the truth...
I am Andropogon
The native grasses of southeastern Arizona are fun to learn. I’m not a botanist…hopefully that’s not a surprise…and so I learn them from friends,...