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.
I arrived in Tucson, Arizona in the fall of 1967 to attend the U of A. Up to that point I had been born...
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or...
For me, every good story about a native plant starts with the source of the plant, its provenance. Then the story follows. I can...
