Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Sandfood

Pholisma sonorae

Description:

This was one of the species of interest, in a psamiphtic plant survey I was a part of while I was an intern at the BLM's Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area. We also surveyed the endangered Peirson's Milkvetch.

Habitat:

Pholisma sonorae, commonly known as Sandfood, is a rare and unusual species of flowering plant endemic to the Sonoran Deserts to the west of Yuma, Arizona in the California Yuha and Colorado Desert, and south in the Yuma Desert, where it is known from only a few locations.

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

12 Comments

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 9 years ago

Spectacular find!

ericstump81
ericstump81 9 years ago

Amazing!Just AMAZING!

ulvalactuca77
ulvalactuca77 10 years ago

Cool HW!

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 10 years ago

Congratulations hannawacker, this is the first spotting of this organism on Project Noah!

The MnMs
The MnMs 10 years ago

Nice spotting!

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 10 years ago

What a fascinating plant!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Amazing thing HW. Thanks for this and the info.

Andrea Lim
Andrea Lim 10 years ago

Very interesting information hannawacker. Thank you!

Reza Hashemizadeh
Reza Hashemizadeh 10 years ago

Awesome !

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

It looks like a Bombyliid Fly feeding on one of the flowers. Also very neat!

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

This is just amazing! I've never even heard of it. Really unique.

ulvalactuca77
ulvalactuca77 10 years ago

Cool!

Robb Hannawacker
Spotted by
Robb Hannawacker

California, USA

Spotted on Mar 27, 2004
Submitted on Jun 13, 2013

Nearby Spottings

giant desert hairy scorpion, giant hairy scorpion, or Arizona Desert hairy scorpion Peirson's milk-vetch Desert Sand Verbena Neumoegen's Sagebrush Checkerspot

Reference

Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team