Petey and Ms. Mesquitey ramble a favorite dirt road through a sky island in southeastern Arizona stopping to admire the flora every few minutes and it was a long glorious day.
Phemeranthus aurantiacus, the former Talinum aurantiacum, is now in Talinaceae, the flameflower family, “a family of two genera and 28 species.” There’s more; the...
I think that the common name of orange sneezeweed may be a bit misleading. The flowers we saw and photographed were more on the...
Surely I’m not the only person who sits around reading field guides by a warm wood stove. And our field guides do end up...
