Desert mule deer and peccary live chiefly in the paloverde-cactus shrub community. From Wordnik.com. [American Semidesert and Desert Province (Bailey)] Reference
Have you ever sat on a backyard patio surrounded by saguaro, ocotillo, paloverde, and cholla?. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Grass Roots Efforts to Impose Socialism] Reference
It was a big frame house, somewhat weathered, with a wide front porch that was shaded by paloverde trees. From Wordnik.com. [Hoodwink]
There are prayer feathers, like the ones tied to Ruthann's paloverde tree and the ones left in Walnut Canyon. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
Hundreds of brown feathers are tied with string and leather to the green branches of a paloverde tree in the front yard. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
The trees were pale and conservative compared to those back home, but they were real trees, not clever mimics like ocotillo and paloverde. From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Way]
Stores and strip malls, cool codo developments, and finally expensive single-family residences gave way to flaming ocotillo and peridot-colored paloverde. From Wordnik.com. [The Mocking Program]
It stood alone on the other side of the property, almost around the curve of the hill, past a small copse of paloverde trees and a jumble of oversized boulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Town]
Tacked to the trunk of a paloverde growing alongside it was the sign, made out of weathered shingles and painted in faded black letters, that Mrs. Duncan had told me about. From Wordnik.com. [Hoodwink]
At the base of the mountains, on the gentle rocky slopes called bajadas, the vegetation is dominated by paloverde, ocotillo, and saguaro, but bitterbrush is also a common shrub. From Wordnik.com. [American Semidesert and Desert Province (Bailey)] Reference
Blooming ocotillo, deep green saguaros and lighter-green paloverde trees filled in the landscape and belied the common conception of the desert as a dead, arid place devoid of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Town]
While I am trapped in the desert, waiting for Delia and her wonderdog to find me underneath a paloverde tree, I look at the parched throat of this cracked earth and imagine all the ways a man might die. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
The washes in the area support a much denser vegetation community than the surrounding desert, including mesquite, ironwood, paloverde, desert honeysuckle, chuperosa, and desert willow, as well as a variety of herbaceous plants. From Wordnik.com. [Proclamation On Sonoran Desert Nationalmonument] Reference
Nonetheless, the winding procession of landscaped nature, with its defiant cactus and struggling paloverde, was far more pleasant to look out upon than yet another row of tract homes, however appealing developers might try to make them. From Wordnik.com. [The Mocking Program]
I'm considering adding a Desert Museum paloverde tree to my landscape. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
Around the houses, thickets of cactus and paloverde trees envelop the homes. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com News] Reference
The hillsides are thick with saguaro, jojoba, cholla, prickly pear, ocotillo and paloverde. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
Downtown also offers restaurants and shops along its wide, paloverde-and-colonnade-shaded Main Street sidewalks. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Real Estate Notebook] Reference
Peering at the coach from his post behind a clump of paloverde, his cruel face was lighted by a grin of satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Wolf of Texas] Reference
Finally it came out on a level stretch of ground, partly covered with a chaparral of greasewood, ironwood, and paloverde. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail or, The Fugitive Professor] Reference
It led around steep side hills and high-banked washes in which nothing grew but tough, stunted clumps of thirsty paloverde. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Wolf of Texas] Reference
They will be wed among the mesquite and paloverde trees of the Desert Botanical Garden on a date neither is likely to forget: 10/10/10. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
By a miracle, they reached the bottom unhurt, and without losing a second, Kid Wolf headed his faithful mount into a thick paloverde clump. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Wolf of Texas] Reference
About both sides of the trail at this point grew great thickets of brush -- paloverde, the darker mesquites, and grotesque bunches of prickly pear. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Wolf of Texas] Reference
In Mexico, the characteristic natural vegetation consists of prickly scrubs, with dominant species including mesquite, acacia, paloverde, silverleaf, hackberry, Texas olive, barreta, corbagallina, and ocotillo. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains ecoregion (CEC)] Reference
Where conditions are suitable, there is a dense understory of smaller trees and shrubs such as brasil, colima or lime pricklyash, Texas persimmon, lotebush, granjeno, kidneywood, coyotillo, Texas paloverde, anacahuita, and various species of cacti. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
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