Petey talks about seeds and the native annual Nama hispidum that had a spectacular spring show. Let’s listen.
Simmondsia chinensisis is now in its own family, Simmondsiaceae, and not in the boxwood family, Buxaceae. Yay! The foliage and stems of jojoba are...
Unless you are a botanist and are comfortable keying out plants in a flora, the only way for the rest of us to identify...
One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla, also called jumping cholla, was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains....
