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Ocotillo in Bloom Springtime Tucson, Arizona

Grevillea banksii, also known as Red silky oak, is evergreen shrub / tree, which is native to Queensland, Australia, and belongs to the Proteaceae family. The clusters of dark red flowers appear sporadically all year with bloom heaviest from late spring to early summer.

Flowers Atriplex canescens. Stone desert, flowering plants xerophytes, desert landscape of a dried up river bed in Texas in Big Bend National Park

Close-up full frame view of yellow flowering broom, suitable for background purposes.

Senna didymobotrya is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names African Senna, popcorn senna, candelabra tree, and peanut butter cassia. It is native to Africa.

Full frame view of yellow wildflowers in a Wyoming meadow.

Chopped green onion

Mature yellow fruit on cane cholla, Cylindropuntia spinosior. New Mexico, USA.

Flowers of Anthyllis cytisoides. Photo taken in Carabassi Beach, province of Alicante, Spain

flower bud of a protea pincushion

Yellow flower of cactus prickly pear

Sunset in Cape Town and surroundings - Western Cape

in the forest field of Pampas grassland

Red Hot Poker Flower Plant - Fiery colored Kniphofia

Coral Aloe (Aloe Striata) cheerfully blooms in the winter. It has wide flat leaves that are green-blue with a light pink edge. The leaves flop open to soak in the desert sun in Rancho Mirage, CA. The Sunnylands ornamental garden is full of heat loving plants like the Coral Aloe.

autumn reeds

Flowering of the immortal wild maquis of balagne

Jerusalem Sage (Phlomis fruticosa) at Rethymno Province in Crete, Greece

A striking white flower stands tall amidst a bed of dried golden grasses, creating an eye-catching contrast

Denmark, Jutland, landscape with broom.

Ocotillo (fouquieria splendens) plant in the Big Bend National Park, Texas

Close-up of an Empusa Pennate female adult into a flower

Yellow flowers in the tundra, blanket wildflower, toxo or Dwarf Gorse

Rubber Rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa) is a North American shrub in the sunflower or aster family. It grows in the arid regions of the west from the Great Plains to the Pacific and northern Mexico. It is a perennial shrub and can reproduce from seeds and root sprouts. It has small yellow flowers and blooms from August to October. Rabbitbrush thrives in poor alkaline soils that are common to the desert. It is an important source of food for browsing wildlife. This rabbitbrush was photographed in a meadow near Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Fantastic flowering and blooming yellow opuntia cactus in the desert.

Small flower head in summer

dry thorn, thorn plant, close-up thorn needles,

Everlastings (Syncarpha vestita). Also called by the following name: Cape snow. Fynbush, Desert flower in South Africa.

With so much of the natural world being replaced with our modern way of life, the protection to native ecology afforded by areas such as Joshua Tree National Park are even more important to maintain. Here, a few miles from the North Entrance, a plant known to botany as Simmondsia Chinensis [of china, incorrect, for they originated in the desert southwest and parts of mexico] can be witnessed. Commonly described as jojoba, they are important food for desert animals, and have a history of use by native american cultures.

$Carlina acaulis (stemless carline thistle, dwarf carline thistle, silver thistle) is a perennial dicotyledonous flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.\n\nUsed in some regions as amulet or good luck charm hanging it on doors.$

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