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Long stemmed, prostrate, mat-like, plants in periodically mowed, grassy, meadow-like highway right-of-way. Note normally obscured, individual 5-petalled flowers and buds visible through the ball-like cluster of exserted stamens.
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prostrate plants trailing across grasses on silty calcareous soils of relatively flat grassy plain cut by shallow brushy meandering creek drainage.
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prostrate plants trailing across grasses on silty calcareous soils of relatively flat grassy plain cut by shallow brushy meandering creek drainage.
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view of recurved prickle armament on stems and pedicles. Prostrate plants trailing across grasses on silty calcareous soils of relatively flat grassy plain cut by shallow brushy meandering creek drainage.
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small 'catclaw' thorned shrub with pink ball-like flowers, common on flat lying pale, blocky, limestone strata above the rim of narrow, steep walled, dry, canyon cut by a intermittent arroyo tributary of Fresnal Creek. A remote area, botanically diverse, but with limited accessibility, known as Hell's Half-acre.
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small 'catclaw' thorned shrub with pink ball-like flowers, common on flat lying pale, blocky, limestone strata above the rim of narrow, steep walled, dry, canyon cut by a intermittent arroyo tributary of Fresnal Creek. A remote area, botanically diverse, but with limited accessibility, known as Hell's Half-acre.
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small 'catclaw' thorned shrub with pink ball-like flowers, common on flat lying pale, blocky, limestone strata above the rim of narrow, steep walled, dry, canyon cut by a intermittent arroyo tributary of Fresnal Creek. A remote area, botanically diverse, but with limited accessibility, known as Hell's Half-acre.
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small 'catclaw' thorned shrub with pink ball-like flowers, common on flat lying pale, blocky, limestone strata above the rim of narrow, steep walled, dry, canyon cut by a intermittent arroyo tributary of Fresnal Creek. A remote area, botanically diverse, but with limited accessibility, known as Hell's Half-acre.
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small 'catclaw' thorned shrub with pink ball-like flowers, common on flat lying pale, blocky, limestone strata above the rim of narrow, steep walled, dry, canyon cut by a intermittent arroyo tributary of Fresnal Creek in a remote area, with limited accessibility, known as Hell's Half-acre. Note distinctively armed margins of the legumes,
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small 'catclaw' thorned shrub with pink ball-like flowers, common on flat lying pale, blocky, limestone strata above the rim of narrow, steep walled, dry, canyon cut by a intermittent arroyo tributary of Fresnal Creek in a remote area, with limited accessibility, known as Hell's Half-acre. Note distinctive flattened rachis and 1-2 paired pinnae of the foliage
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limestone ledges on low rocky hillside
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mimosa pigra 1Location: Aswan 2003
