Just a half hour drive from downtown Tucson a wilderness awaits in the Rincon Mountains of Saguaro National Park on the Tanque Verde Ridge Trail. 
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Some spring time banter about the soaptree yuccas (Yucca elata) and pale wolfberry plants (Lycium pallidum) found in the scruffy grassland surrounding our home...
Petey chats about the hydro-seeded wildflowers he sees along the local roadsides. He seems a tad miffed.
I meant to talk more about the leaves of Physocarpus monogynus. They resemble the leaves of a currant or a…
