A Guide to Common Plants of Lake Mead National Recreation Area 9781647790981, 9781647790998, 1647790980

Table of contents :
Cover Page
Title page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Plant Ecology
Plant Communities
Life Forms
Plant Descriptions
Organizational Notes
Trees
California Juniper
Desert Willow
Paloverde
Western Honey Mesquite
Screwbean Mesquite
Smoketree
Catclaw
Turbinella Oak (Shrub Live Oak)
Fremont Cottonwood
Singleleaf Pinyon Pine
Goodding’s Black Willow
Tree Tobacco
Athel
Shrubs
Rush Milkweed
White Bursage (Burrobush)
Cheesebush
Woolly Bursage
Chaffbush
Seepwillow (Mulefat)
Broom Baccharis
Parish’s Goldeneye
Brittlebush (Incienso)
Sweetbush (Chuckwalla’s Delight)
Black-Banded Rabbitbrush (Mojave Rabbitbrush)
Virgin River Brittlebush
Alkali Goldenbush
Sticky Snakeweed
Arrowleaf
Pygmy Cedar
Arrowweed
Paperflower (Paper-Daisy)
Mojave Cottonthorn (Horsethorn)
Spiny Goldenbush
Desert Alyssum
Four-Wing Saltbush
Desert Holly
Shadscale
Lenscale (Quailbush, Big Saltbush)
Winterfat
Nevada Ephedra
Torrey Ephedra
Bush Trefoil
Sand Croton
Indigobush (Fremont’s Dalea)
Spiny Senna
Ocotillo
Pima Rhatany
Desert Lavender
Desert Sage
Bladdersage
Thurber’s Sandpaper Plant
Desert Buckwheat (California Buckwheat)
Globemallow (Desert Mallow)
Blackbrush
Desert Almond
Box-Thorn (Wolfberry)
Desert Rue (Turpentine Broom)
Canyon Grape (Arizona Grape)
Saltcedar
Creosotebush
Cacti
Buckhorn Cholla (Staghorn Cholla)
Teddybear Cholla (Jumping Cholla)
Diamond Cholla (Pencil Cholla)
Silver Cholla (Golden Cholla)
Cottontop Cactus (Clustered Barrel Cactus)
Hedgehog Cactus
Barrel Cactus (California Barrel Cactus)
Devil Cholla (Parish’s Club-Cholla)
Beavertail
Fishhook Cactus
Grizzly Bear Prickly Pear (Mojave Prickly Pear)
Pygmy Barrel Cactus (Johnson’s Bee-Hive Cactus)
Yuccas
Banana Yucca
Beargrass (Bigelow’s Nolina)
Joshua Tree
Mojave Yucca
Sedges and Grasses
American Bulrush (Olney’s Three-Square Bulrush)
California Sawgrass (Twig Rush)
Purple Threeawn
Red Brome
Cheatgrass
Fluffgrass
Saltgrass
Sixweeks Fescue (Sixweeks Grass)
Big Galleta
Common Reed
Alkali Sacaton
Mediterranean Grass
Ricegrass (Sand Rice Grass)
Southern Cattail
Aquatic Plants
Fennel-Leaf Pondweed (Sago Pondweed)
Spiny Naiad (Holly-Leaved Water-Nymph)
Wildflowers - White/Cream
Gravel Ghost
Woolly Bluestar (Small-Leaved Amsonia)
Fremont Pincushion
Pebble Pincushion
Desert Pincushion
White Woolly Daisy (Woolly Sunflower)
Desert Star
Rock Daisy (Emory’s Rock Daisy)
Desert Chicory
Odora (Slender Poreleaf)
Narrowleaf Cryptantha
Nevada Cryptantha
Scented Cryptantha (Utah Cryptantha)
Winged-Nut Cryptantha
Bent Combseed (Arched-Nut Pectocarya)
Flattened Combseed (Wide-Toothed Pectocarya)
California Man-Root
White-Margined Spurge (Rattlesnake Weed)
Heliotrope
Smallseed Sandmat
Blazing Star (Spiny-Hair Blazing Star)
Rock Nettle
Browneyed Primrose
Dune Primrose (Birdcage Oenothera)
Humble Gilia
White Desert Gold
Skeleton Buckwheat (Flat-Topped Skeleton Weed)
Yerba Mansa (Lizard Tail)
Desert Tobacco
Sacred Datura (Jimson Weed)
Wildflowers - Yellow/Orange
Desert Marigold
Sunray
Desert Sunflower (Desert Gold)
Woolly Daisy (Wallace’s Woolly Daisy)
Chinchweed (Fetid Marigold)
Desert Dandelion
Groundsel (Threadleaf Ragwort)
Nevada Goldenrod (Showy Goldenrod)
Dogweed
Fiddleneck (Desert Fiddleneck)
Flixweed (Tansy Mustard)
Sahara Mustard
Beadpod
Prince’s Plume
Coyote Melon
Desert Birdfoot Trefoil (Deervetch)
Suncups (Golden Evening-Primrose)
White-Stemmed Blazing Star (White-Stemmed Stick-Leaf)
Desert Gold Poppy
Las Vegas Bearpoppy (Bearpaw Poppy)
Lesser Mohavea (Golden Desert Snapdragon)
Little Gold Poppy
Desert Trumpet
Little Desert Trumpet
Ground-Cherry
Wildflowers - Red/Pink/Magenta
Trailing Milkweed
Mohave Thistle
Spanish Needles
Saltmarsh Fleabane
Wire Lettuce
African Mustard
Tumbleweed (Russian thistle)
Arizona Lupine
Filaree (Cranesbill, Redstem Filaree)
Desert Fivespot
Weakstem Mariposa
Purple Mat
Sand Verbena
Desert Paintbrush
Giant Four O’Clock
Desert Monkeyflower
Palmer’s Penstemon (Beardtongue)
Desert Aster
Rock Gilia
Wildflowers - Blue/Purple
Mojave Lupine (Coulter’s Lupine)
Notchleaf Phacelia (Scorpionweed)
Common Phacelia
Yellowthroats (Fremont’s Phacelia)
Chia
Palmer’s Phacelia
Bristly Gilia (Bristly Langloisia)
Desert Larkspur (Mojave Larkspur)
Wildflowers - Inconspicuous Flowers
Pigweed Amaranth (Tumble Pigweed)
Honeysweet
Cocklebur
Peppergrass
California Dodder (Chaparral Dodder)
Woolly Plantain
Brittle Spineflower
Spiny Herb (Devil’s Spineflower)
Desert Mistletoe
Flower Color Cross-Reference Guide
Plant Structures
Leaf Shapes
Leaf Arrangements
Flowers
Fruits
Inflorescence Types
Glossary
Suggested Reading
Index
About the Authors