Peter jabbers about cool winged grasshoppers and a plant called Stinging Serpent.
Cevallia sinuata or Stinging Serpent is found around the wild borderlands of southeastern Arizona from 2,500 to 5,000 feet in elevation. The flowers are fascinating and the stinging hairs are very cool.
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family,...
There are sixty-five to seventy species of Fraxinus found around the world, so of course ancient Romans had a name for ash trees. Carl...
Mentzelia pumila is in the Loasa family. Kearny and Peebles in Arizona Flora say, “the family is remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure...