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Ephedra trifurca
Longleaf Ephedra
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Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson
ID: 0000 0000 0518 0482 (2018-05-13)Copyright © 2018 Wynn Anderson
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date of photo Apr 21, 2018
latitude 30.57055 longitude 104.88503
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location
local rural road along Rio Grande, 1.1 miles southeast of terminal junction of west fork of Chispa Road, 8.6 miles northwest of junction with east fork Chispa Road (Coal Mine Road), 15.4 miles south of pavement at TX-rm 1523, (Presidio County, Texas, US)family
Ephedraceae
plant community Chihuahuan Desert scrub at 3146' (958m)notes Young female plant in full cone, with many erect, jointed, spine tipped branches with much reduced leaves in sheathed whorls of 3 at the node.Though reduced, the slender, persistent, awn-like leaves are are still the longest, most noticeable, among other southwestern Ephedra. Plant at base of west facing hillside of clayish silts overlain by mixed coarse rhyolite gravelskeywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert
contributor's ID # CDR 142 photo category: Plant - shrub
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
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| common names
Longleaf Ephedra, Canutillo, Mexican Tea, Long Leaf Joint-fir (photographer)
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