List of flora (LCRV)

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This is a List of flora of the (Lower Colorado River Valley).

The list also includes: Lepidoptera (Butterfly & Moth), and Wildflower species.

Contents 1 List of flora 1.1 To be added-list 2 List of cacti 3 List of bird flora 4 List of lepidoptera flora 5 List of lepidoptera 6 List of trees 7 List of water-related flora 8 List of wildflowers 9 Reference picture section 10 List of Sonoran Desert/LCRV plants by binomial 11 Unedited Sonoran Desert flora list 12 See also 13 External links

[edit] List of flora

Sand-verbena Abronia (plant) Abronia villosa

Desert trumpet Eriogonum inflatum

Brittlebush Encelia farinosa

The list:

Acacia greggii Atriplex Baccharis Chenopodium Chilopsis Cottonwood Creosote bush Encelia Encelia farinosa Globemallow Joshua Tree Linanthus demissus, Humble Gilia (or Desert Snow)-Linanthus

Linanthus demissus, Humble Gilia (or Desert Snow)-Linanthus Mesquite Screwbean Mesquite Nicotiana glauca Ocotillo–(not a cactus) Palo verde Platanus–Arizona Sycamore Potamogeton Screwbean Mesquite Saguaro, not a true cactus(?) Tamarix Typha–Cattails Yucca elata, the Soaptree yucca

[edit] To be added-list

• Canaigre Dock, (Desert Rhubarb)
• Chia, (Desert Sage), Salvia columbariae
• Fishhook cactus
• Abronia (plant)
• Chaenactis xantiana
• Desert trumpet
• Linanthus demissus, Humble Gilia (or Desert Snow)

• Rigid Spiny-Herb
• Canaigre, Rumex hymenosepalus
  Family: Polygonaceae
• Desert rock pea

Sand-verbena Abronia (plant) Abronia villosa

Desert trumpet Eriogonum inflatum

Brittlebush Encelia farinosa

[edit] List of cacti

• Barrel cactus
• Cholla
  • See Opuntia
• Beavertail Cactus
• Fishhook cactus
• Jumping Cholla
• Ocotillo–(not a cactus)
• Opuntia–Prickly pear cacti
• Saguaro, not a true cactus(?)

[edit] List of bird flora

• Linanthus demissus, Humble Gilia (or Desert Snow)
  Hummingbirds

[edit] List of lepidoptera flora

• Atriplex
• Baccharis
• Encelia, Brittlebush
• Encelia farinosa, Brittlebush
• Linanthus demissus, Humble Gilia (or Desert Snow)

Sand-verbena Abronia (plant) Abronia villosa

Desert trumpet Eriogonum inflatum

Brittlebush Encelia farinosa

[edit] List of lepidoptera

• Yucca moth
  • with Yucca elata, the Soaptree yucca

[edit] List of trees

Acacia greggii Cottonwood Creosote bush Desert Ironwood–Olneya tesota

Mesquite Screwbean Mesquite Platanus–Arizona Sycamore Tamarix Yucca elata, the Soaptree yucca

[edit] List of water-related flora

• Potamogeton
• Tamarix
• Typha–Cattails

[edit] List of wildflowers

Beavertail Cactus

Beavertail Cactus

Mojave yucca

Banana yucca Beavertail Cactus Chaenactis xantiana Chilopsis Desert five-spot Desert larkspur Desert rock pea Encelia Encelia farinosa Globemallow

Joshua Tree Langloisia Mariposa Lily: Calochortus kennedyi See:Jepson manual map of S Calif. Mojave yucca Pink phlox Prairie clover Purple cymopterus Scale Bud White woolly daisy

Flowers: Tree-related, cacti, etc:

• Banana yucca
• Beavertail Cactus
• Chilopsis
  • See: Jepson Flora Project: Chilopsis linearis
• Cholla
  • See Opuntia
• Fishhook cactus
• Desert Ironwood–Olneya tesota
• Joshua Tree
• Jumping Cholla
• Mesquite
  • Screwbean Mesquite
• Mojave yucca
• Palo verde
• Ocotillo–(not a cactus)
• Opuntia–Prickly pear cacti
• Saguaro, not a true cactus(?)
• Screwbean Mesquite

Mojave Desert flowers related with LCRV region:
(Eastern Mojave Desert)

Chaenactis xantiana Desert five-spot Desert rock pea

Pink phlox Purple cymopterus Scale Bud White woolly daisy

Beavertail Cactus

Beavertail Cactus

Mojave yucca

Banana yucca Yucca baccata

Joshua tree Yucca brevifolia

Mojave yucca

Joshua tree Yucca brevifolia

Soaptree yucca flowering

Soaptree yucca

[edit] Reference picture section

{Pictures listed by Genus, species)
Plants: Brittlebush(Encelia farinosa), Canaigre(Desert Rhubarb)(Rumex), Chia(Desert Sage)(Salvia columbariae) Desert five-spot(Eremalche), Desert trumpet(Eriogonum), Humble Gilia (or Desert Snow)( =Linanthus demissus ), Ocotillo(Fouquieria), Saguaro(Carnegiea)

Pics-CA Pics-EZ

Pics-FZ Pics-LA

Pics-QR Pics-SA

• More pictures.
  Humble Gilia (or Desert Snow)( =Linanthus demissus )

Pics-CA Pics-EZ

Pics-FZ Pics-Liaaa-Lizzz

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[edit] List of Sonoran Desert/LCRV plants by binomial

Abronia villosa -- Sand-verbena Abronia villosa / (LCRV)-- Sand-verbena (Acacia greggii) / (LCRV)- Catclaw_Acacia Acourtia nana, (Perezia nana) / (LCRV)-- Desert_Holly /#1 Acourtia wrightii, (Perezia wrightii) -- Perezia Agave. Agave americana -- Century plant Agave bracteosa -- Spider_Agave Agave lecheguilla -- Lechuguilla Agave vilmoriniana -- Octopus agave Ailanthus altissima -- Tree of heaven Escapee from cultivation, (Phoenix, etc.) Allionia incarnata / (LCRV)-- Trailing_Four_O'clock Arctostaphylos pungens / (LCRV)-- Pointleaf_Manzanita Argemone pleiacantha / (LCRV)-- Bluestem_Pricklepoppy Asclepias asperula -- Antelope_Horns Asclepias subulata / (LCRV)-- Rush_Milkweed Atriplex canescens ---- Four-wing_Saltbush Atriplex hymenelytra / (LCRV)- Desert_Holly_/#2 Atriplex polycarpa / (LCRV)---- Saltbush(Desert_Saltbush) Baccharis salicifolia / (LCRV)-- Seepwillow(Mulefat) Baccharis sarothroides - Desert_Broom Bebbia juncea / (LCRV)-- Chuckwalla's_Delight Berberis fremontii/Mahonia fremontii -- Fremont_Barberry (Mahonia harrisoniana), Berberis harrisoniana / (LCRV)- Kofa_Mountain_Barberry Bumelia lanuginosa / (LCRV)- Gum_Bumelia Bursera microphylla / (LCRV)-- Elephant_Tree Carnegiea gigantea / (LCRV)-- Saguaro Cassia covesii / (LCRV)-- Desert senna Castela emoryi(Holacantha emoryi) / (LCRV)-- Crucifixion_Thorn Cercidium .Cercidium floridum -- ---Blue_Palo_Verde Cercidium .Cercidium microphyllum -- Foothills_Palo_Verde Chaenactis fremontii / (LCRV)-- Fremont's_Pincushion (Chaenactis xantiana) / (LCRV)-- Mojave pincushion Chenopodium album -- Fat Hen // Lamb'squarters Chilopsis .Chilopsis linearis / (LCRV)-- Desert-willow Chorizanthe rigida / (LCRV)-- Rigid_Spiny-Herb Cucurbita digitata ------ Finger_Leaved_Gourd Cucurbita foetidissima -/ (LCRV)- Buffalo_Gourd Cynodon dactylon / (LCRV)-- Bermuda_grass Dalea albiflora / (LCRV)- Scruffy_Prairie_Clover Dalea emoryi / (LCRV)----- Emory_Dalea Dalea parryi ---- Parry_Dalea Dalea spinosa / (LCRV)--- Smoke-Tree Datura meteloides / (LCRV)-- Jimson_Weed-Sacred_Datura Distichlis spp / (LCRV)-- Salt-grass Echinocereus fendleri -- (Fendler)-Hedgehog_Cactus (Encelia) / (LCRV)- Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) / (LCRV)- Brittlebush Ephedra / (LCRV)-- Mormon_Tea Eremalche rotundifolia / (LCRV)-- Desert five-spot Eriogonum inflatum / (LCRV)-- Desert trumpet Eschscholzia mexicana -- Mexican_Gold_Poppy Eschscholzia minutiflora -- Little_Gold_Poppy Fagonia laevis (Fagonia californica)/ (LCRV)-- Fagonia Forestiera shrevei-(Forestiera phillyreoides) / (LCRV)-- Desert_Olive Fouquieria columnaris -- Boojum tree Fouquieria splendens / (LCRV)--- Ocotillo Gutierrezia microcephala -- Broom_Snakeweed Heliotropium curassivicum / (LCRV)- Salt_Heliotrope Hesperocallis undulata / (LCRV)-- Ajo_Lilly Hibiscus denudatus / (LCRV)- Rock_Hibiscus Hyptis emoryi / (LCRV)-- Desert_Lavender Justicia californica / (LCRV)-- Chuparosa Krameria grayi / (LCRV)- White_Ratany Larrea tridentata / (LCRV)-- Creosote bush

(Mahonia harrisoniana), Berberis harrisoniana / (LCRV)- Kofa_Mountain_Barberry Mammillaria -- Fishhook cactus Mentzelia pumila / (LCRV)- Desert_Blazing_Star (Nicotiana glauca) / (LCRV)-- Tree_Tobacco Nicotiana trigonophylla / (LCRV)-- Desert_Tobacco Oenothera deltoides / (LCRV)-- Dune_Primrose Olneya .Olneya tesota / (LCRV)-- Desert_Ironwood Opuntia basilaris -- Beavertail Cactus Opuntia bigelovii -- Teddy-bear Cholla Opuntia fulgida ---- Jumping Cholla Opuntia imbricata -- Cane Cholla Opuntia ramosissima / (LCRV)-- Diamond_Cholla Palafoxia arida (Palafoxia linearis)/ (LCRV)- Spanish_Needles (Perezia nana)/ Acourtia nana -- Desert_Holly /#1 Phalaris (grass) -- Canarygrass Phragmites -- Common_Reed Pinus monophylla -- Single-leaf Pinyon Populus. Populus fremontii / (LCRV)-- Cottonwood Prosopis. Prosopis pubescens / (LCRV)-- Screwbean Mesquite Purshia. Purshia integra -- Cliff-rose Rumex hymenosepalus -- Canaigre (Canaigre_Dock) Salix exigua -----/ (LCRV) Sandbar(Coyote)_Willow Salix gooddingii / (LCRV)- Goodding_Willow Salsola / (LCRV)-- Thistle Thistle Salsola iberica(Salsola kali) -- Tumbleweed/Salsola Sarcobatus. Sarcobatus vermiculatus / (LCRV)-- Black_Greasewood Sarcostemma hirtellum / (LCRV)-- Rambling_Milkweed Schoenoplectus -- Tule Scirpus californicus -- California_Bulrush Senna covesii / (LCRV)-- Desert senna Cassia covesii Sphaeralcea ambigua / (LCRV)-- Desert_Globemallow Tamarix Tamarix aphylla / (LCRV)---- Athel_Tamarisk Tamarix Tamarix chinensis / (LCRV)- Saltcedar Taraxacum (genus) officinale / (LCRV)-- Dandelion Tessaria sericea / (LCRV)-- Arrowweed Tidestromia lanuginosa / (LCRV) -- Woolly_Tidestromia Tiquilia canescens / (LCRV)-- Shrubby_Coldenia Tiquilia plicate (Coldenia plicate)/ (LCRV)-- Crinkle_Mats Tribulus terrestris / (LCRV)-- Puncture Vine(Goatheads) Invasive species Typha latifolia / (LCRV)-- Cattails Verbascum thapsus / (LCRV)-- Common Mullein // Mullein Viscaceae / (LCRV)-- Desert_Mistletoe, Mistletoe, American_Mistletoe Xanthium .Xanthium spinosum / (LCRV)-- Cocklebur Yucca baccata -- Banana yucca Yucca brevifolia / (LCRV)- Joshua Tree Yucca elata ----- Soaptree yucca ((.Yucca filamentosa - Adam's_needle.)) ((.Yucca schidigera --- Mojave yucca.)) ((.Yucca whipplei ----- Our Lord's Candle.)) Ziziphus obtusifolia -- Gray_Thorn Zinnia acerosa -- Wild_Zinnia

[edit] Unedited Sonoran Desert flora list

Abronia villosa -- Sand-verbena Abronia villosa / (LCRV)-- Sand-verbena (Acacia greggii) / (LCRV)- Catclaw_Acacia Acourtia nana, (Perezia nana) -- Desert_Holly /#1 Acourtia wrightii, (Perezia wrightii) -- Perezia (Acroptilon repens/Centaurea repens) -- Russian_Knapweed Agave. Agave americana -- Century plant Agave bracteosa -- Spider_Agave Agave lecheguilla -- Lechuguilla Agave vilmoriniana -- Octopus agave Ailanthus altissima -- Tree of heaven Escapee from cultivation, (Phoenix, etc.) Allionia incarnata / (LCRV)-- Trailing_Four_O'clock Ambrosia trifida, (Heliantheae) -- Buffalo_Weed Amsinckia intermedia - Fiddleneck Anisocoma acaulis -- Scale Bud Androstephium breviflorum -- Funnel_Lily Anemone tuberosa -- Desert_Anemone Arctostaphylos pringlei -- Pringlei_Manzanita, or Mexican_Manzanita Arctostaphylos pungens -- Pointleaf_Manzanita Argemone pleiacantha -- Bluestem_Pricklepoppy Asclepias asperula -- Antelope_Horns Asclepias subulata / (LCRV)-- Rush_Milkweed Atriplex canescens ---- Four-wing_Saltbush Atriplex hymenelytra / (LCRV)- Desert_Holly_/#2 Atriplex polycarpa ---- Saltbush(Desert_Saltbush) Baccharis salicifolia -- Seepwillow(Mulefat) Baccharis sarothroides - Desert_Broom Baileya -- Desert_marigold Bebbia juncea / (LCRV)-- Chuckwalla's_Delight Berberis fremontii/Mahonia fremontii -- Fremont_Barberry (Mahonia harrisoniana), Berberis harrisoniana / (LCRV)- Kofa_Mountain_Barberry Bumelia lanuginosa - Gum_Bumelia Bursera microphylla / (LCRV)-- Elephant_Tree Calochortus kennedyi.(Liliaceae) -- Desert_Mariposa Canotia holocantha - Crucifixion_Thorn_/#2 Carnegiea gigantea / (LCRV)-- Saguaro Cassia covesii -- Desert senna Castela emoryi(Holacantha emoryi) - Crucifixion_Thorn Castilleja chromosa -- Indian_Paintbrush Centaurea repens /(Acroptilon repens -- Russian_Knapweed Centaurea solstitialis / (LCRV)-- Yellow_Star_Thistle Cercidium .Cercidium floridum -- ---Blue_Palo_Verde Cercidium .Cercidium microphyllum -- Foothills_Palo_Verde Chaenactis fremontii / (LCRV)-- Fremont's_Pincushion Chaenactis stevioides -- Esteve's_Pincushion (Chaenactis xantiana) / (LCRV)-- Mojave pincushion Chenopodium album -- Fat Hen // Lamb'squarters Chilopsis .Chilopsis linearis -- Desert-willow Chorizanthe rigida / (LCRV)-- Rigid_Spiny-Herb Crossosoma bigelovii -- Bigelow_Ragged_Rock Flower, (or_Bigelow's_Crossosoma) Cucurbita digitata ------ Finger_Leaved_Gourd Cucurbita foetidissima - Buffalo_Gourd Cynodon dactylon -- Bermuda_grass Dalea albiflora / (LCRV)- Scruffy_Prairie_Clover Dalea emoryi ----- Emory_Dalea Dalea parryi ---- Parry_Dalea Dalea spinosa --- Smoke-Tree Dasylirion wheeleri -- Common_Sotol Datura meteloides -- Jimson_Weed-Sacred_Datura Delphinium scaposum -- Barestem_Larkspur Distichlis spp -- Salt-grass (Dodonaea viscosa) -- (Florida)-Hopbush/Hopseed/Akeake Echinocereus fendleri -- (Fendler)-Hedgehog_Cactus (Encelia) - Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) / (LCRV)- Brittlebush Ephedra -- Mormon_Tea Eremalche rotundifolia -- Desert five-spot Eriogonum inflatum -- Desert trumpet Eschscholzia mexicana -- Mexican_Gold_Poppy Eschscholzia minutiflora -- Little_Gold_Poppy Fagonia laevis (Fagonia californica)/ (LCRV)-- Fagonia Forestiera neomexicana -- New_Mexican_Forestiera Forestiera shrevei-(Forestiera phillyreoides) -- Desert_Olive Fouquieria columnaris -- Boojum tree Fouquieria splendens / (LCRV)--- Ocotillo Frangula californica /Rhamnus californica -- California_Buckthorn Fraxinus lowelii -- Lowell_Ash Geraea canescens / (LCRV)-- Desert_Sunflower Gilia latifolia -- Broad_Leaved_Gilia Gossypium thurberi -- Arizona_Desert_Cotton Gutierrezia microcephala -- Broom_Snakeweed Harpagophytum procumbens -- Grapple_Plant (Devil's_Claw_/2) Heliotropium curassivicum / (LCRV)- Salt_Heliotrope Hesperocallis undulata / (LCRV)-- Ajo_Lilly Hibiscus denudatus / (LCRV)- Rock_Hibiscus Hyptis emoryi / (LCRV)-- Desert_Lavender Jatropha cuneata -- Limber_Bush Jamesia americana -- Cliffbush/Jamesia Justicia californica -- Chuparosa Kallstroemia grandiflora - Arizona_Caltrop Krameria grayi / (LCRV)- White_Ratany Krameria parvifolia -- Range_Ratany Larrea tridentata / (LCRV)-- Creosote bush (Linanthus demissus) -- Humble_Gilia (Desert_Snow) Lithospermum incisum - Fringed_Gromwell Lonicera interrupta -- Chaparral_Honeysuckle Lotus rigidus -- Desert rock pea Mahonia fremontii -- Fremont_Barberry (Mahonia harrisoniana), Berberis harrisoniana - Kofa_Mountain_Barberry

Mammillaria -- Fishhook cactus Mentzelia pumila / (LCRV)- Desert_Blazing_Star Mirabilis bigelovii -- Desert_Wishbone_Bush (Nicotiana glauca) -- Tree_Tobacco Nicotiana trigonophylla / (LCRV)-- Desert_Tobacco Oenothera deltoides / (LCRV)-- Dune_Primrose Olneya .Olneya tesota -- Desert_Ironwood Opuntia basilaris -- Beavertail Cactus Opuntia bigelovii -- Teddy-bear Cholla Opuntia fulgida ---- Jumping Cholla Opuntia imbricata -- Cane Cholla Opuntia ramosissima / (LCRV)-- Diamond_Cholla Palafoxia arida (Palafoxia linearis)/ (LCRV)- Spanish_Needles Pectis angustifolia -- Fetid_Marigold (Perezia nana)/ Acourtia nana -- Desert_Holly /#1 (Perezia wrightii)/Acourtia wrightii -- Perezia Phacelia distans -- Blue_Phacelia Phalaris (grass) -- Canarygrass Phragmites -- Common_Reed Pinus monophylla -- Single-leaf Pinyon Platanus mexicana -- Mexican Plane Platanus wrightii -- Arizona_Sycamore Populus. Populus fremontii / (LCRV)-- Cottonwood Populus tremuloides -- Quaking_Aspen Proboscidea parviflora -- Devil's claw/Unicorn plant Prosopis glandulosa -- Honey_Mesquite Prosopis. Prosopis pubescens -- Screwbean Mesquite Purshia. Purshia integra -- Cliff-rose Rhamnus californica /Frangula californica -- California_Buckthorn Rhus ovata / (LCRV)-- Sugar Sumac Rubus neomexicanus - New_Mexican_Raspberry Rubus strigosus -- Red_Raspberry Rumex hymenosepalus -- Canaigre (Canaigre_Dock) Salix bonplandiana -- Bonpland_Willow Salix exigua ----- Sandbar(Coyote)_Willow Salix gooddingii - Goodding_Willow Salsola / (LCRV)-- Thistle Thistle Salsola iberica(Salsola kali) -- Tumbleweed/Salsola (Salvia columbariae) - Chia Sambucus mexicana -- Mexican_Elder Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii -- Western_Soapberry Sarcobatus. Sarcobatus vermiculatus / (LCRV)-- Black_Greasewood Sarcostemma cynanchoides -- Climbing_Milkweed Sarcostemma hirtellum / (LCRV)-- Rambling_Milkweed Schoenoplectus -- Tule Scirpus californicus -- California_Bulrush Senecio douglasii -- Threadleaf_Groundsel Senecio lemmoni -- Lemmon's_Butterweed Senecio neomexicanus -- New_Mexico_Butterweed Senecio quercetorum -- Senecio Senna covesii -- Desert senna Cassia covesii Simmondsia chinensis -- Jojoba Sisymbrium irio -- London_Rocket Sphaeralcea ambigua / (LCRV)-- Desert_Globemallow Sphaeralcea parvifolia / (LCRV)-- Little_Leaf_Globemallow Stenocereus thurberi -- Organ_Pipe_Cactus Stephanomeria pauciflora -- Desert_Straw Stephanomeria thurberi -- Thurber's_Stephanomeria Stevia lemmoni -- Stevia Symphoricarpos rotundifolius -- Roundleaf_Snowberry Tamarix Tamarix aphylla / (LCRV)---- Athel_Tamarisk Tamarix Tamarix chinensis / (LCRV)- Saltcedar Taraxacum (genus) officinale / (LCRV)-- Dandelion Tessaria sericea / (LCRV)-- Arrowweed Tidestromia lanuginosa -- Woolly_Tidestromia Tiquilia canescens / (LCRV)-- Shrubby_Coldenia Tiquilia plicate (Coldenia plicate)/ (LCRV)-- Crinkle_Mats Tribulus terrestris - Puncture Vine(Goatheads) Invasive species Typha latifolia -- Cattails Urtica -- Nettle Verbascum thapsus -- Common Mullein // Mullein Viscaceae / (LCRV)-- Desert Mistletoe, Mistletoe, American_Mistletoe Viguiera annua -- Annual_Goldeneye Viguiera parishii -- Parish_Viguiera Xanthium .Xanthium spinosum / (LCRV)-- Cocklebur Yucca baccata -- Banana yucca Yucca brevifolia / (LCRV)- Joshua Tree Yucca elata ----- Soaptree yucca ((.Yucca filamentosa - Adam's_needle.)) ((.Yucca schidigera --- Mojave yucca.)) ((.Yucca whipplei ----- Our Lord's Candle.)) Ziziphus obtusifolia -- Gray_Thorn Zinnia acerosa -- Wild_Zinnia

[edit] See also

• List of fauna (LCRV)
• List of flowers
• List of plants by common name
• List of plants by common name (Sonoran Desert)

[edit] External links

• For "Wildflower tree", Chilopsis:
  Jepson Flora Project: Chilopsis linearis