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San Tan Mountain Regional Park
San Tan Mountain Regional Park is a large rural/suburban park located in Pinal County. Although the park is administered by Maricopa County Parks, it is located within Pinal County. It encompasses over 10,000 acres and preserves a portion of the San Tan Mountains, south of Queen Creek. Description Comprising over 10,200 acres in the Sonoran Desert, the park sits south of Queen Creek Arizona and preserves a portion of the San Tan Mountains, located on their northeastern flank. It is located approximately 30 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix. Higley Basin is its northern border, while Chandler Heights sits to its northwest. The western and southern portions of the park are bordered by the Gila River Indian Reservation. The elevation of the park varies between 1,400 and 2,500 feet, with the highest point in the park situated in the Malpais Hills at 2,539 feet. Goldmine Mountain which sits in the northern section of the park, with the Malpais Hills in the south, between them si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinal County
Pinal County is in the central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. According to the 2020 census, the population of the county was 425,264, making it Arizona's third-most populous county. The county seat is Florence. The county was founded in 1875. Pinal County contains parts of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, the Gila River Indian Community and the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, as well as all of the Ak-Chin Indian Community. Pinal County is included in the Phoenix–Mesa– Scottsdale, Arizona Metropolitan Statistical Area. Suburban growth southward from greater Phoenix has begun to spread into the county's northern parts; similarly, growth northward from Tucson is spreading into the county's southern portions. Pinal County has five cities: Maricopa, Casa Grande, Apache Junction, Eloy, and Coolidge. There are also many unincorporated areas, which have shown accelerated growth patterns in recent years; such suburban development is likely to continue for the foreseeable fut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittlebush
''Encelia farinosa'' (commonly known as brittlebush, brittlebrush, or incienso), is a common desert shrub of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has a variety of historical uses. Description Brittlebush grows up to tall, with fragrant leaves long, ovate to deltoid, and silvery tomentose. Arranged in loose panicles above the leafy stems, the capitula are in diameter. Each has 8–18 orange-yellow ray florets, in length, and yellow or purple-brown disc florets. The fruit measures and no pappus is visible. During dry seasons the plant goes drought deciduous, shedding all of its foliage, relying on the water stored in its thick stems. '' Encelia californica'' is similar, but has only one flower head per stalk. Chemistry The leaves contain 3-Acetyl-6-methoxybenzaldehyde. Taxonomy Varieties Two varieties of ''E. farinosa'' are recognized by ''Flora of North America''. *''Encelia farinosa'' var. ''farinosa'' – yellow disc florets *''Encelia farin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottleya Strigosa
''Ottleya strigosa'', synonyms ''Lotus strigosus'' and ''Acmispon strigosus'', is a flowering plant in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is known as stiff-haired lotus or strigose bird's-foot trefoil.Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p232 Description ''Ottleya strigosa'' is a prostrate annual herb. It is sometimes roughly hairy as its name suggests, but it may be somewhat woolly, fuzzy, or nearly hairless as well. Its slender branches are lined with leaves each made of several small leaflets. The leaves are 1/2" to 1" long. They are pinnately divided, with 4-9 obovate, alternate, leaflets, on a flattened rachis. The inflorescence bears one or two yellow to orange or red pealike flowers, each with a corolla one half to one centimeter across. The fruit is a legume A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coastal Bird's-foot Trefoil
''Acmispon maritimus'', synonym ''Lotus salsuginosus'', is a species of legume native to Arizona, California and northwestern Mexico. It is known by the common name coastal bird's-foot trefoil. It grows in many types of mountain, desert, and scrub habitat, not necessarily near the coast. It is an annual herb quite variable in morphology, from petite to bushy, hairless to roughly hairy, and prostrate to erect in form. The slender stems are lined with leaves each made up of pairs of leaflets variable in shape and size. The inflorescence is a small array of 1 to 4 yellow flowers, each up to a centimeter long or so. The elongated flower corolla emerges from a tubular calyx of sepals. The fruit is a legume pod up to 3 centimeters long. Laboratory studies have shown this species, which occurs in wildfire-prone habitat such as chaparral, to have an increased rate of seed germination Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore. The term is applied to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catclaw Acacia
''Senegalia greggii'', formerly known as ''Acacia greggii'', is a species of tree in the genus ''Senegalia'' native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, from the extreme south of Utah south through southern Nevada, southeast California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas to Baja California, Sinaloa and Nuevo León in Mexico. The population in Utah at 37°10' N is the northernmost naturally occurring ''Senegalia'' species anywhere in the world. Common names include acacia bush, catclaw acacia, catclaw mesquite, Gregg's catclaw, paradise flower, wait-a-minute bush, and wait-a-bit tree; these names mostly come from the fact that the tree has numerous hooked prickles with the shape and size of a cat's claw which tend to hook onto passers-by; the hooked person must stop ("wait a minute") to remove the prickles carefully to avoid injury or shredded clothing. (The common name "cat's claw" is also used to refer to several other plant species, including ''Uncaria to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixweeks Fescue
''Festuca octoflora'', also known as ''Vulpia octoflora'', is an annual plant in the grass family (Poaceae).Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 285 The common name six week fescue is because it supplies about 6 weeks of cattle forage after a rain. Other common names include sixweeks fescue, six-weeks fescue, pullout grass, eight-flower sixweeks grass, or eight-flowered fescue. Range and habitat This bunchgrass is native to North America occurring across a large part of Canada, in all of the lower 48 contiguous United States, and Baja California of Mexico. It grows in open, sunny places between shrubs and in burn areas. It is commonly found in burn areas after a fire. Varieties ''Festuca octoflora''/''Vulpia octoflora'' varieties include: *''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''glauca'' (AKA ''Festuca octoflora'' Walter var. ''tenella'', ''Festuca gracilenta'' Buckley, ''Festuca tenella'' Willd. Carl Ludwig Willdenow (22 August 1765 – 10 July 1812) was a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigelow's Bluegrass
''Poa bigelovii'' is a species of grass known by the common name Bigelow's bluegrass. It is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in shady spots in desert and plateau habitat. It is an annual bunchgrass growing in small clumps up to 40 centimeters tall. The inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ... is a narrow, compact, cylindrical series of hairy spikelets. The spikelets sometimes have a curly tuft of hairs or cobwebby fibers near their bases. External linksJepson Manual Treatment [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Fluff-grass
''Dasyochloa'' is a monotypic genus containing the single species ''Dasyochloa pulchella''Grass Manual Treatment (formerly ''Erioneuron pulchellum''),Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam Mackay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 314 known as desert fluff-grass or low woollygrass, a densely tufted found in the deserts of the southwestern United States.Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam Mackay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 283 Range and habitat It is native to the |
Bermuda Grass
''Cynodon dactylon'', commonly known as Bermuda grass, is a grass found worldwide. It is native to Europe, Africa, Australia and much of Asia. It has been introduced to the Americas. Although it is not native to Bermuda, it is an abundant invasive species there. In Bermuda it has been known as "crab grass" (also a name for ''Digitaria sanguinalis''). It is also known by various names as ''Dhoob'', ''dūrvā'' grass, ''ethana'' grass, ''dubo'', dog grass, dog's tooth grass, Bahama grass, crab grass, devil's grass, couch grass, Indian ''doab'', ''arugampul'', grama, wiregrass and scutch grass. Description The blades are a grey-green colour and are short, usually long with rough edges. The erect stems can grow tall. The stems are slightly flattened, often tinged purple in colour. The seed heads are produced in a cluster of two to six spikes together at the top of the stem, each spike long. It has a deep root system; in drought situations with penetrable soil, the root system ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Brome
''Bromus madritensis'' is a species of brome grass known by the common name compact brome. The specific epithet ''madritensis'' refers to Madrid, Spain. It has a diploid number of 28. There are two subspecies: *''Bromus madritensis'' subsp. ''madritensis'': panicles less dense, stem and leaf sheath less hairy *''Bromus madritensis'' subsp. ''rubens'' (syn. ''Bromus rubens'') – foxtail brome, foxtail chess, red brome: dense panicles and slightly hairy stems Description ''Bromus madritensis'' is an winter annual grass, growing solitary or tufted, with erect or ascending culms growing high. The leaf sheaths are downy or slightly hairy. The grass lacks auricles and the glabrous ligules are long. Its flat leaf blades are either glabrous or slightly hairy, and measure long and wide. The erect and ellipsoid panicles are long and wide, with short branches that ascend and slightly spread. The branches never droop and bear one or two spikelets each. The spikelets are long, lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Brome
''Bromus arizonicus'' is a species of brome grass known by the common name Arizona brome. It is native to the Southwestern United States, California, and Baja California, where it grows in many types of grassy valley and desert habitat. Description It is an annual grass growing tall with an open, branching inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o .... The spikelets are flat and hairy and have awns up to long. References External linksJepson Manual Treatment [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purple Threeawn
''Aristida purpurea'' is a species of grass native to North America which is known by the common name purple three-awn. Distribution This grass is fairly widespread and can be found across the western two thirds of the United States, much of southern Canada and parts of northern Mexico. It is most abundant on the plains. Description This is a perennial bunchgrass, growing erect to under a meter-3 feet in height, and the flower glumes In botany, a glume is a bract (leaf-like structure) below a spikelet in the inflorescence (flower cluster) of grasses (Poaceae) or the flowers of sedges (Cyperaceae). There are two other types of bracts in the spikelets of grasses: the lemma and ... often assumes a light brown to reddish-purple color. There are several varieties with overlapping geographical ranges. This is not considered to be a good graze for livestock because the awns are sharp and the protein content of the grass is low. References External links Calflora Database: '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
