Crotalaria pumila or Rattle Box is a sweet little legume found out in the grassland and up slope as well. The family Leguminosae may be Fabaceae now or maybe it is the other way around, but one thing is for sure: at night Kangaroo Rats use the pods of rattle box to shake out rhythms as they swirl beautiful patterns in dust with their long tails . It’s true.
Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the...
When I would give talks I would always show photos and talk about our regional yucca species; Yucca elata, Yucca baccata and Yucca madrensis…...
This was going to be an episode about thread leaf groundsel, (Senecio flaccidus var. flaccidus), a common southwestern shrub and…
