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Life Form (Need Help?) cactus cactus,barrel-shaped cactus,low arborescent cactus,low columnar cactus,medium arborescent cactus,pad cactus,pincushion cactus,spherical cactus,sprawling cactus,tall arborescent cactus,tall columnar clubmoss fern forb forb,annual forb,biennial forb,perennial grass grass,annual grass,perennial parasite sedge shrub shrub,low shrub,medium shrub,tall subshrub succulent tree vine vine,non-woody vine,woody
Flower Color apricot black blue brown brownish burgundy copper cream gray green greenish indigo lavender magenta maroon no flowers off-white orange orangish pink pinkish purple purplish red reddish scarlet tan violet white whitish yellow yellowish
Spines and Thorns (Need Help?) Spineless Thorns Curved spines Hooked spines Short straight spines without sheaths Short straight spines with sheaths Long straight spines without sheaths Long straight spines with sheaths Spine tipped leaves Spiny leaves Spiny involucres Spiny around flowers Spiny fruits Glochids only Very short spines
Location Ajo area Barry M. Goldwater Range Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge Kofa National Wildlife Refuge Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Sonoran Desert National Monument Tinajas Altas area Yuma area and California
Habitat Alkaline wet areas Arroyos Bajadas Canyons Disturbed areas Ditches Fields Human habitation Mountains Near water Northerly aspects Roadsides Rocky slopes Saline valley bottoms Sandy areas Sand dunes Valleys Washes Water Widespread Yards
Leaf Presence Always leafless Leafless during winter or drought Leaves only on new growth Leaves only on seedlings Leaves usually present
Leaf Arrangement (Need Help?) Alternate Basal Clustered Fascicled Imbricate Moss like Opposite Rosette Sheathing Whorled
Leaf Shape (Need Help?) Cordate Cuneate Filiform Grasslike Hastate Lanceolate Linear Moss-like Oblanceolate Obovate Orbicular Oval Ovate Perfoliate Scalelike Spatulate Triangular
Leaf Margin (Need Help?) Bipinnatifid Bristly Ciliate Crisped Dentate Digitate Dissected Entire Lobed Pinnatifid Revolute Sawteeth Spiny Sinuate Toothed
Leaf Surface (Need Help?) Bumpy Canescent Crinkled Glandular Glaucous Hairy Punctate Rough Scaly Shiny Smooth Stinging hairs Woolly Wrinkled
Leaf Format (Need Help?) Bifoliate Bipinnate Palmate Palmately bipinnatifid Palmately pinnatifid Pinnate Pinnately bipinnatifid Pinnately pinnatifid Simple Trifoliate