Petey finds botanical treasures among roadside garbage.
It always happens this way; stop to look at one cool plant and lo and behold there are other interesting plants to see. The original plant we stopped to see is Senecio douglasii and it is a wonderful perennial and deserves to be grown, so I gathered seed. Yay!!!
White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably rolling in his grave...
The desert bighorn is found in the arid regions of the western and southwestern US and across the border in Mexico. Its scientific name...
Santa Rita Acacia or Mariosousa millefolia is found in the borderlands of Arizona and Sonora between 3,000 and 5,000 ft. Hey, two different countries...
