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Windy Day Bristlehead
Bristlehead (Carphochaete bigelovii) is a small shrub…a subshrub…that I’m not sure I would have recognized without the flowers and bristles. I wonder if I’ve...
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Toadflax Acres
Just a couple things about this episode; the genus Linaria has been assigned to the European or Eurasian species of toadflax and Nuttallanthus is...
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Penny Cress Saves the Day
Our one flowering wildflower on this wonderful day was the pretty perennial called penny cress or candy tufts. It is the former Thlaspi fendleri,...
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Wild Dock and Grinding Holes
Do I talk about dock every late winter and early spring? It sure seems like I do. Well, it's truly the first green plant...
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My Old Friend Desert Spoon
Yet another love affair with an Arizona native plant. It could change next week and I’ll be in love with a new native plant,...
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Santa Cruz River Song
In the early 1990s when this story and song came about I was poking around the West Branch starting at Ajo Road and north...