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About 1 foot long from head to tail, surprisingly fast mover, overall brown ...
The noise of these cicadas dominates the desert landscape. Spotted in
This gopher snake came down to one of the few remaining pools of water in
The leaves of these plants are spirally arranged, and usually palmate or ...
Came across this little owl while doing tiger rattlesnake surveys in
Large lizard, big head. Black and yellow "collar" diagnositic.
It has a pale yellow face that becomes reddish in older males. The thorax is ...
Upper surface is creamy white with indented black borders which outline a ...
The 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide flowers are followed by bright red, 1 inch (2.5 cm) ...
House Finches are small-bodied finches with fairly large beaks and somewhat ...
Perennial to 2'. Flowers pale yellow with 5 petals to 1" wide. Fruit a woody, ...
The tubular, 2-lipped flowers are 3/4 inch (1.9 cm) long and have a ...
The white-tailed deer is tan or brown in the summer and grayish brown in ...
Up to 6 inches (15 cm) tall The 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide flowers are followed by ...
Silverleaf Bahia is a clumping perennial that spreads by short underground ...
Medium-sized shrub mostly about one meter in diameter. Dark green resinous ...
The flower heads are 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide and have 3 to 6, rounded, cupped, ...
Dwarf zinnia usually grows 4–10 inches tall with numerous branches and many ...
Leaf: Alternate, simple, broadly cordate to triangular, coarsely crenate, 2 to ...
To 14 inches (36 cm) tall The flowers emerge from the upper leaf axils. The ...
The desert-marigold is an annual or short-lived perennial, generally 10 to 30 ...
7-7 3/4" (18-20 cm). Larger than a sparrow. A slender, elegant bird with a ...
Small, flycatcher-like bird with glossy black body. Head has distinct crest and ...
Phainopepla: Small, flycatcher-like bird with glossy black body. Head has ...
Common group of ants in the Sonoran Desert are the leaf-cutting or ...
Large or medium size leafy shrub with dark gray or brown bark. Sharp thorns ...
Densely covered with long, glistening, sharply barbed spines that mostly ...
Highly branched woody succulent often exceeding three meters in height. The ...
Desert mistletoe is an essentially leafless plant with dense clusters of ...
Each 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide flower is actually a cluster of 3 bilaterally ...
Upperside is chestnut brown; black borders of forewings have 2 rows of white ...
The fishhook barrel cactus typically grows to a diameter of roughly two feet ...
Creosote bush blooms most profusely in the spring, but can have flowers at many ...
