Fouquieria columnaris can be also found up to 1200m. From Wordnik.com. [Baja California desert] Reference
Highway construction has already destroyed part of the habitat of Cephalocereus hoppenstedttii, Agave titanota and Fouquieria purpusii. From Wordnik.com. [Tehuacán Valley matorral] Reference
Away from the Gulf influence in the area surrounding the Pinacate Encelia farinosa, Larrea tridentata, and cacti species such as Olneya, Cercidium, Prosopis, and Fouquieria again dominate the desert. From Wordnik.com. [Sonoran desert] Reference
Another remarkable plant found in the Sonora desert is the ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens), which may remain leafless during the coldest months of winter but experiences five or six leafy periods throughout the year. From Wordnik.com. [Sonoran desert] Reference
The southeastern portion of the desert scrub is gradually transformed from a strict Larrea-Flourensia scrub to one in which Fouquieria splendens, Yucca filifera, Agave lechuguilla and Cordia boissieri are the most common elements. From Wordnik.com. [Chihuahuan desert] Reference
In the states of San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas, the most common associations contain lechuguilla (Agave lechuguilla), Agave falcata, Bouteloua curtipendula, Bouteloua trifida, Dalea nana, Dasylirion cedrosanum, Ferocactus pringlei, Fouquieria splendens and Opuntia imbricata, and many others. From Wordnik.com. [Central Mexican matorral] Reference
Dominating the vegetation are large stem-succulents, particularly the massive cardón (Pachycereus pringlei, a giant relative of the saguaro), and trees such as palo verde, tree ocotillo (Fouquieria diguetii and F. macdougalii), ironwood, elephant tree (Bursera spp.), and limberbush (Jatropha spp.); the trees are leafless most of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Subdivisions of the Sonoran Desert] Reference
Characteristic Sonoran species on the islands are the palo verde Cercidium spp., elephant tree Bursera microphylla, desert ironwood Olneya tesota, limberbush Jatropha spp., ocatillo Fouquieria diguetti, white bursage Ambrosia spp. and cacti such as the columnar cardon Pachycerus pringlei, viejito Mammillaria capensis, cholla Opuntia cholla and prickly pears Opuntia spp. From Wordnik.com. [Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico] Reference
There are fields of huge, sculpted white granite boulders or black lava cliffs that shelter botanical apparitions such as boojums (Fouquieria columnaris), twisted and swollen Baja elephant trees (Pachycormus discolor), sixty-foot (18 m) tall cardones, strangler figs (Ficus petiolaris ssp. palmeri) that grow on rocks, and blue palm trees (Brahea armata). From Wordnik.com. [Subdivisions of the Sonoran Desert] Reference
The area is characterized by certain vegetation such as: Lechuguilla (Agave lechuguilla), Creosotebush (Larrea tridentata), Tarbush (Flourensia cernua), Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens), sotol (Dasylirion spp.), yucca (Yucca spp.), and certain other shrubs (Parthenium spp. From Wordnik.com. [Boquillas Canyon, United States] Reference
Fouquieria columaris. From Wordnik.com. [Subdivisions of the Sonoran Desert] Reference
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