Tag: Spring
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 13: Yellow Aloe
More aloe, but with yellow flowers this time, like lil spikes of bananas!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 11: Creosote Bushes (Larrea tridentata)
Yellow blooms on the Creosote! 🌼
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 10: Purple Flower Appreciation (Phacelia crenulata)
These purples just keep getting more beautiful every day!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 8: One Californian Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
A single Mexican poppy along the trail.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 5: Dainty Desert Hideseed (Eucrypta micrantha)
Little flowers with an unusually great scientific name!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 3: Lil White Bells (Arizona Jewelflower)
Part 3: lil white flowers that look kind of like bells. Arizona Jewelflower (Streptanthus carinatus ssp. arizonicus)
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 2: yellow and purple meadows
What an astonishing show being put on in the Sonoran Desert right now! An explosion of yellow (Gordon’s Bladderpod [link to swbiodiversity.org]), punctuated by a purplish flower (Phacelia distans(?) or else Phacelia crenulata(?) [both links to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center]), all the more precious for its sparing presence. Robin Wall Kimmerer has a chapter…
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 1: Silver-Leaf Cassia
Silver-leaf Cassia, a common bush across Tucson’s urban landscape.
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