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East of Ambovombe, Madagascar, off highway RN13 an area of spiny desert and nearby mountains are dominated by the octopus tree or alluaudia procera a thorny and drought tolerant cactus-like trees now covered in tiny, green leaves.

Native Big Sagebrush growing in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. The botanical name is Artemesia tridentata. Sagebrush grows in semi-arid conditions in the North American west.

Palo Verde tree Sonora desert spring and in yellow blossom

Plant in Etosha National Park at Kunene Region, Namibia

View of desert landscape in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Close up of locoweed or milkvetch,

(Cylindropuntia versicolor) Prickly cylindropuntia with yellow fruits with seeds. Arizona cacti, USA

Bushes at Painted Hills Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA

Elevate your Anza-Borrego Desert experience with the enchanting Cylindropuntia ganderi cactus. Its vibrant blooms and resilient nature make it a captivating addition to any desert landscape. Bring home a piece of desert beauty today

Elephant Tree, Bursera microphylla. Anza Borrego State Park. Burseraceae.

California sagebrush close-up landscape view of it

Acacia Shrub at Etosha National Park in Kunene Region, Namibia

Wyoming sagebrush and various grasses, plants, and flowers

Desert Sand-Verbena, (Abronia villose), found near the riverbank of the Salt River in the eastern mountains of Arizona in the Spring.

Baccharis Tola Plants, an Unique Desert Plants in Puna Grassland, Andean Altiplano, Bolivia, South America

Scenery at Valley of Fire Recreation Area, New Mexico, USA

Contemplating the lifestyle aspects of Native Americans in the Southern Mojave Desert includes consideration their Traditional Medicine. Among the numerous medicinal uses of a plant taxonomically ranked as Larrea Tridentata was wound sanitization, and as a treatment for sore joints. They also provide protection for many animals who take shelter or dig burrows beneath their foliage, such as Desert Tortoise, Desert Wood Rat, and Desert Iguana, and Kangaroo Rat. Witness them here, two miles from the North Entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. Laws protecting the Preserve, and efforts towards conservation, appear to be the main factors affording these Pre Contact species a compete term in the locale. If we all follow their lead and act in the interest of the environment, our future generations will be able to experience this beautiful native habitat. Etymology associates the botanical epithet, Tridentata, with Three Toothed, for the look of foliage from certain angles.

Ephedra viridis, known by the common names green Mormon tea, green ephedra, and Indian tea, is a species of Ephedra. It is indigenous to the Western United States, where it is a member of varied scrub, woodland, desert, and open habitats. Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest; White Mountains; Inyo National Forest; Inyo County; California.

Palo Verde tree Sonora desert spring and in yellow blossom

Wildflowers in high altitude meadows and forests in the Grand Canyon National Park Arizona as seen on the North Rim near Walhala Point Overlook

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Close up of common gorse (ulex europaeus) flowers in bloom

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

I am fascinated by what appears to be a sterile dead environment until I look closer and see tiny mosses, lichens and algae actually growing a stabilizing soil on undistrubed sand. I learned about this fragile cryptobiotic soil from rangers in the United States National Parks.

Tree seedling at a clear cut logging site on a mountain

October autumn yellow blooming wildflower bushes in vast Mojave desert landscape with mountains in distance

Desert bushland near the town of Marree, South Australia state.

plant in bloom in the countryside, is an area, passes a dry stream next door

This is a photograph of a hiking trail in the desert landscape of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, USA on a spring day.

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