A Guide to Common Plants of Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Elizabeth A. Powell has an MS in biology and a PhD in botany. She has published a number of scientific papers on pollination ecology and conservation biology. As the botanist for LMNRA (1996–2005), she managed rare and invasive plants. Frederick H. Landau was a research associate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he conducted research on plant ecology and physiology and also taught courses in plant taxonomy, economic botany, and field ecology. He has resided in the Mojave Desert since 1977. Lawrence R. Walker has an MS in botany and a PhD in plant ecology. He has published more than 140 scientific papers and eleven books, including A Natural History of the Mojave Desert with Frederick H. Landau. He taught ecology, conservation biology, and scientific writing for thirty years.

Cover Page
Title page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Plant Ecology
Plant Communities
Life Forms
Organizational Notes
Trees
Desert Willow
Western Honey Mesquite
Smoketree
Turbinella Oak (Shrub Live Oak)
Singleleaf Pinyon Pine
Tree Tobacco
Athel
Shrubs
White Bursage (Burrobush)
Woolly Bursage
Seepwillow (Mulefat)
Parish's Goldeneye
Sweetbush (Chuckwalla's Delight)
Virgin River Brittlebush
Sticky Snakeweed
Pygmy Cedar
Paperflower (Paper-Daisy)
Spiny Goldenbush
Four-Wing Saltbush
Shadscale
Winterfat
Torrey Ephedra
Sand Croton
Spiny Senna
Pima Rhatany
Desert Sage
Thurber's Sandpaper Plant
Globemallow (Desert Mallow)
Desert Almond
Desert Rue (Turpentine Broom)
Saltcedar
Creosotebush
Cacti
Teddybear Cholla (Jumping Cholla)Silver Cholla (Golden Cholla)
Hedgehog Cactus
Devil Cholla (Parish's Club-Cholla)
Fishhook Cactus
Pygmy Barrel Cactus (Johnson's Bee-Hive Cactus)
Yuccas
Beargrass (Bigelow's Nolina)
Mojave Yucca
Sedges and Grasses
California Sawgrass (Twig Rush)
Red Brome
Fluffgrass
Sixweeks Fescue (Sixweeks Grass)
Common Reed
Mediterranean Grass
Southern Cattail
Aquatic Plants
Spiny Naiad (Holly-Leaved Water-Nymph)
Wildflowers - White/Cream
Woolly Bluestar (Small-Leaved Amsonia)
Pebble Pincushion
White Woolly Daisy (Woolly Sunflower)
Rock Daisy (Emory's Rock Daisy)
Odora (Slender Poreleaf)
Nevada Cryptantha
Winged-Nut Cryptantha
Flattened Combseed (Wide-Toothed Pectocarya)
White-Margined Spurge (Rattlesnake Weed)
Smallseed Sandmat
Rock Nettle
Dune Primrose (Birdcage Oenothera)
White Desert Gold
Yerba Mansa (Lizard Tail)
Sacred Datura (Jimson Weed)
Sunray
Woolly Daisy (Wallace's Woolly Daisy)
Desert Dandelion
Nevada Goldenrod (Showy Goldenrod)
Fiddleneck (Desert Fiddleneck)
Sahara Mustard
Prince's Plume
Desert Birdfoot Trefoil (Deervetch)
White-Stemmed Blazing Star (White-Stemmed Stick-Leaf)
Las Vegas Bearpoppy (Bearpaw Poppy)
Little Gold Poppy
Little Desert Trumpet
Trailing Milkweed
Spanish Needles
Wire Lettuce
Tumbleweed (Russian thistle)
Filaree (Cranesbill, Redstem Filaree)
Weakstem Mariposa
Sand Verbena
Giant Four O'Clock
Palmer's Penstemon (Beardtongue)
Rock Gili
Notchleaf Phacelia (Scorpionweed)
Yellowthroats (Fremont's Phacelia)
Palmer's Phacelia
Desert Larkspur (Mojave Larkspur)
Honeysweet
Peppergrass
Woolly Plantain
Spiny Herb (Devil's Spineflower)
Desert Mistletoe
Flower Color Cross-Reference Guide
Leaf Shapes
Leaf Arrangements
Flowers
Inflorescence Types
Glossary
Suggested Reading
Index
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