Tag: Phoenix

Willow baccharis (Baccharis salicina), at the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area, Phoenix, Arizona. 

As the species name suggests, this plant thrives in mildly saline soils. Finding it on the banks of the Salt River is almost absurdly apt – a wonderful conflux of name and type, habitat and habitué. 

In addition to the honey bee in the second photo, there are three tiny bugs hiding in the third photo from top. Can you find them?

Buckwheat (Eriogonum sp., possibly E. polycladon), at the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area in Phoenix, Arizona. 

This low-growing buckwheat thrives here in dense patches on disturbed, gravelly soils. Because the supporting plant stems are so thin and sparse, they are barely visible in the full sun. At a distance the rocky river bluffs seem painted with misty scumbles of pale pink flowers.  

Buckwheat (Eriogonum sp., possibly E. polycladon), at the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area in Phoenix, Arizona. 

This low-growing buckwheat thrives here in dense patches on disturbed, gravelly soils. Because the supporting plant stems are so thin and sparse, they are barely visible in the full sun. At a distance the rocky river bluffs seem painted with misty scumbles of pale pink flowers.