Key to Trees and Shrubs of the Deserts of Southern California |
Other editions - View all
Key to Trees and Shrubs of the Deserts of Southern California Barbara J. Collins No preview available - 1976 |
Common terms and phrases
1/2 inches long 2-lipped 3-lobed 3/8 inch wide 9 feet alternate apex Atriplex axils bark branched shrub branchlets Brickellia broom-like cacti cactus California Calyx canyons capsule Chenopodiaceae Colorado Desert Compositae Corolla creosote bush Dalea Death Valley dense discoid disk flowers drupe dry slopes Engelm Erect fascicled feet elevation feet high feet tall fleshy Flowers from April Flowers from February Flowers from March Fruit glabrous gland dotted glochids Gray green greenish grows on dry hairy Heads herbage inflorescence involucral bracts lavender leafless Leaflets Leguminosae Lepidospartum less than 1/8 lobed Low shrub margin Mojave Desert MONOCOTS mountains narrow numerous oblanceolate oblong obovate occurs ovate perennial Petals petioles pinnate pinnate compound plant pubescent purple rabbit brush ray and disk Ray flowers resinous rocky slopes scurfy seeds Sepals showy shrub spatulate spine tipped spinose spiny shrub stamens Stems strong scented terminal clusters toothed Torr unisexual washes white woolly whitish woody yellow