Here are photos of some of the plants I was jabbering about: Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), esperanza or Arizona yellow bells (Tecoma stans var. angustata), little leaf sumac (Rhus microphylla), acorns on a silverleaf oak (Quercus hypoleucoides), and coral bean (Erythrina flabelliformis). So many native plants are ready for some of that monsoonal moisture and I am too. Come on summer rains!
I was looking through photos that I’ve taken of this plant over the years and realized I even have 35 mm slides of Jatropha...
I think that the common name of orange sneezeweed may be a bit misleading. The flowers we saw and photographed were more on the...
Mammalogy was one of my favorite courses back in my college days. It was 1968 (early Anthropocene) and there were…
