Petey waxes poetic about life and finally describes a native Lotus. Let’s listen.
Lotus greenei is truly a beautiful wildflower and yes, it does need to be grown and made available in nurseries. But seeing it in the wild is pretty cool too, so call in well to work and go look for it. Just do it.
In birder lingo loggerhead shrikes are uncommon in southeastern Arizona. Some winters and springs it seems there is a shrike on every other fence...
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in this...
I can’t believe I almost let November go by without at least mentioning desert broom (Baccahris sarothroides). It is the native plant the folks...
