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One figwort plant on Buena Vista trail produced white flowers. Aside from that it looked just like all the surrounding figworts. First noticed it blooming on 22 Feb 2011 and it continued to bloom into May when the trail was mowed.
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roadside swale with white limestone gravels at crest of low hillside slope above south edge of large arroyo in Heath Canyon. Area under invasion by (Pennisetum ciliare)
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Beautiful flowering shrubs on an open, exposed, gravelly undulating plain. Volcanic substrate. Chihuahuan endemic, widespread landscape use in western states.
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Beautiful flowering shrubs on an open, exposed, gravelly undulating plain. Volcanic substrate. Chihuahuan endemic, widespread landscape use in western states. View of branching habit.
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Beautiful flowering shrubs on an open, exposed, gravelly undulating plain. Volcanic substrate. Chihuahuan endemic, widespread landscape use in western states.
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Beautiful flowering shrubs on an open, exposed, gravelly undulating plain. Volcanic substrate. Chihuahuan endemic, widespread landscape use in western states. Actual gray-green leaves obscured by dense ashy colored pubescence of short branching hairs, hence the Spanish name Ceniza (Cenizo).
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Beautiful flowering shrubs on an open, exposed, gravelly undulating plain. Volcanic substrate. Chihuahuan endemic, widespread landscape use in western states. Dense, short ashy-white pubescence covers otherwise gray-green leaves
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Beautiful flowering shrubs on an open, exposed, gravelly undulating plain. Volcanic substrate. Chihuahuan endemic, widespread landscape use in western states. Inviting bee pollinated plant.
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Beautiful flowering shrubs on an open, exposed, gravelly undulating plain. Volcanic substrate. Chihuahuan endemic, widespread landscape use in western states.
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Beautiful flowering shrubs on an open, exposed, gravelly undulating plain with ocotillo, creosote and mesquite. Volcanic substrate. Chihuahuan endemic, widespread landscape use in western states.
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Habitat view on coarse gravelly calcareous silts of alluvial bluff above Rio Grande River with Yucca constricta, Heliotropium confertifolium, Vachellia rigidula, Karwinskia humboldtiana, Aloysia macrostachya, Calliandra conferta, Forestieria angustifolia, Schaefferia cuneifolia, Ephedra antisyphilitica, Sida tragiaefolia, Lippia graveolens, Guaiacum angustifolium, Jatropha dioica, Krameria ramosissima.
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in calcareous soil and gravel along edge of arroyo drainage at base of low limestone hillside, with Yucca filifera, Dasylirion cedrosanum
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in calcareous soil and gravel along edge of arroyo drainage at base of low limestone hillside, with Yucca filifera, Dasylirion cedrosanum
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plants in shallow calcareous soils and gravels on low hillside slope of white blocky Cretaceous limestone. Site represents an extreme eastern outlier of Chihuahuan Desert flora (Agave lechuguilla present) in transition to upland Tamaulipan brushland of Rio Grande plains.
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