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Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Desert Wildflower Blooms — homepage, with focus article links. Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: The Desert in Bloom; Sonoran Desert Florilegium Program — homepage: botanical illustrations. Desert USA: Desert Wildflower Field Guide — Wildflower pictures sorted by Color
Desert bloom in Namaqualand, South Africa. A desert bloom is a climatic phenomenon that occurs in various deserts around the world. The phenomenon consists of the blossoming of a wide variety of flowers during early-mid spring in years when rainfall is unusually high.
This normally bare desert in Namaqualand, Goegap Nature Reserve in South Africa has a proliferation of flowers and desert ephemerals during the brief spring wet season. Desert ephemerals, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, are plants which are adapted to take advantage of the very short favourable seasons in deserts. Annual plants in deserts may use ...
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran ...
Astragalus holmgreniorum is a short-lived plant. They experience low survivorship from germination to one-year-old juvenile or reproductive adult. [7] It is rare for these plants to live past their third growing season [7] Fewer than 2 percent of seedlings live into their fourth growing season.
Its outer ray flowers are bright golden yellow with distinct, sharp-margined white tips. The bracts tips are rounded and involucre 6–12 mm high. The corolla is 4–6 mm long. The ray flowers are 3–3.8 mm long and the disk flowers are 2.8–5 mm long. The ligules are 6–15 mm long and 5–10 mm wide.
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Gilia latiflora adds lavender to the colorful carpet of spring wildflowers on the sandy washes of the region. The plant starts from a basal rosette of frilly leaves, each of which is made up of many narrow-toothed lobes.