Cordia

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) Plants recovering from exceptionaly hard freeze in 2011.

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) Plants recovering from exceptionaly hard freeze in 2011.

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) Plants recovering from exceptionaly hard freeze in 2011.

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) Plants recovering from exceptionaly hard freeze in 2011.

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) Plants recovering from exceptionaly hard freeze in 2011.

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) Plants recovering from exceptionaly hard freeze in 2011.

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare)

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare)

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare)

small shrubby trees along large braided arroyo in mixed limestone gravels with Acacia berlandieria, Prosopis glandulosa, Yucca treculeana and invasive Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare)

in the Mesquite-Pachycereus bosque comprising the grounds of the preserve. SYN: C. brevispicata. Some authorities have now place this and other Cordias in the resurrected genus Varronia.

on fine silty volcanic soil of a gently sloping plain with good diversity of cacti and shrub cover but a paucity of forbs or grasses resulting from a long history of overgrazing