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Cenchrus palmeri
Cenchrus palmeri
Giant Sandbur
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0116 0376 (2016-01-03)

Copyright © 2016 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Feb 24, 2015
  • latitude 29.38173   longitude 112.28497     View on Google Maps.
  • location   unpaved coast road from Punta Chueca to El Desemboque (Sur), 10.8 miles S of El Desemboque, 28 miles N of Punta Chueca, 5 miles N of dirt track to El Sargento on Cabo Tepoca (Mcp. Pitiquito, Sonora, Mexico)
  • family Poaceae
  • plant community   Sonoran Desert coastal scrub at 150' elev.
  • notes   Burrs, including spines, 1.8 to 2 cm. Plants on reddish volcanic alluvial sands of gently sloping coastal plain with Nama hispidum, Tiquilia palmeri, Dithyrea californica, Psorothamnus emoryii, Abronia villosa, Cylindropuntia bigelovii, Jatropha cuneata, Jatropha cinerea,
  • keywords: SON, Sonoran Desert
  • contributor's ID #  SON 1718
  • photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Giant Sandbur (photographer)
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