Blazingstar

threatened

on coarse gravels of dark basalt at base of roadcut for new highway across the Sa. La Brena escarpment that largely obliterated the old, one lane railroad bed that provided access to the botanically rich, exciting and very scenic climb into the Madrean highlands

low roadcut in gray tuffaceous rhyolite along grassy highway right-of-way

Plant on fine, silty sands of gently sloping coastal plain.

photo by Wendy Boes