Observations by la_sam23

Habitat Notes:
Habitat type / Plant community: Desert Shrubland
Aspect, slope, elevation: East facing slope, 1271 meters
Soils: Missile very gravelly fine sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Short, columnar, colony-forming. 10-13 ribs
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: 8-18 spines per areole with 1-4 central spines. Central spines about 6 cm long.
Flower type /parts: Perfect, solitary, usually pink, many petals, stamens, and sepals.

Habitat Notes
Habitat type / Plant community: Riparian
Elevation: 1147 meters
Soils: Made land, Gila soil material

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Hedge-forming
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: distichous, wedge-shaped, greater than 30cm long
Flower type /parts: Panicle, spikelets with 2-4 florets
Fruit type: Caryopses

Habitat description:
Habitat type / Plant community: Riparian
Elevation: 1114 meters
Soils: Made land, gila soil material
Land Use: Wetland reserve

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Tree
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Compound with leaflets in 5-8 pairs
Armature: Spines
Fruit type: Coiled pods

Habitat Notes:
Habitat type / Plant community: Desert Shrubland
Aspect, slope, elevation: East facing slope, 1271 meters
Soils: Missile very gravelly fine sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Herb
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Alternate, linear ending in sharp point
Flowers: bracteoles

Habitat Notes
Habitat type / Plant community: shrubland
Elevation: 1247 meters
Soils: Dune land; Parent material: Sandy eolian sands

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Tree with green bark
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Twice-pinnate, leaflets 2-8mm long
Fruit type: pods

Habitat Notes:
Habitat type / Plant community: Desert Shrubland
Aspect, slope, elevation: East facing slope, 1271 meters
Soils: Missile very gravelly fine sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes

Features Description
Growth form / habit: shrub
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Alternate, simple, entire, obovate
Armature: Spines
Flower type /parts: actinomorphic, perfect, 5 sepals, 5 petals, many stamens
Fruit type: capsule

Habitat Notes
Habitat type / Plant community: shrubland
Elevation: 1247 meters
Soils: Dune land; Parent material: Sandy eolian sands

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Shrub with stems ending in sharp points
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Reduced, whorled
Fruit type: cones

Habitat Notes:
Habitat type / Plant community: Desert Shrubland
Aspect, slope, elevation: East facing slope, 1271 meters
Soils: Missile very gravelly fine sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Hemi-spheric, deep seated in ground, unbranched
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: 5 radial and 1 central spine per areole
Flower type /parts: Perfect, solitary, pink color, many petals, stamens, and sepals.

Habitat description:
Habitat type / Plant community: Riparian
Elevation: 1114 meters
Soils: Made land, gila soil material
Land Use: Wetland reserve

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Herbaceous shrub
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Alternate, triangular to weakly lobed with a coarse texture
Armature: None
Fruit type: Burs with hooked involucers

Habitat Notes:
Habitat type / Plant community: Desert Shrubland
Aspect, slope, elevation: East facing slope, 1271 meters
Soils: Missile very gravelly fine sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Upright shrub with succulent, jointed stems
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Spines 12-30 mm long
Flower type /parts: Perfect, solitary, fuchsia color, many petals, stamens, and sepals.

Habitat Notes
Habitat type / Plant community: Riparian
Elevation: 1147 meters
Soils: Made land, Gila soil material

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Tall, perennial herb
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: alternate, simple, entire, convex on back
Flower type /parts: Flowers numerous, unisexual
Fruit type: follicle

Habitat Notes:
Habitat type / Plant community: Desert Shrubland
Aspect, slope, elevation: East facing slope, 1271 meters
Soils: Missile very gravelly fine sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Shrub
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Alternate, twice compound with 5 or more leaflets
Armature: curved spines with flattened bases
Flower type /parts: Capitate clusters

Habitat Notes
Habitat type / Plant community: Desert Shrubland
Aspect, slope, elevation: East facing slope, 1271 meters
Soils: Missile very gravelly fine sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes

Features Description
Growth form / habit: Shrub
Leaf arrangement / leaf type: Alternate, simple, and lobed
Flower type /parts: 5 white petals, many pistils
Pubescence: on lower leaf surface