Shrubs Around Las Vegas, Vegetation Around Las Vegas
 Green stems with dry flowerheads |
General: Desert Baccharis (Baccharis sergiloides) is an upright, many-stemmed shrub (broom-like) with green, angular stems such that the shrubs appear as green stems with little flowerheads at the stem tips. Leaf length and shape are variable. Lower and mid-level leaves are fairly long (to 50 mm) and wide (5–15 mm), and they are usually notched or lobed towards the tip. Distal leaves drop by the time the flowers bloom (deciduous at flowering). Desert Baccharis is a member of the sunflower family, but the flowers have no "petals," that is, only disk flowers are present. Flowerheads are clustered on stem tips, and individual flowers are tiny. Desert Baccharis is a fairly common component of vegetation communities in canyons, washes, along streams, and other moist places in the Lower Sonoran (Creosote-Bursage Flats) and Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub) life zones. Family: Sunflower (Asteraceae) |
 Desert Baccharis (green shrubs) along a Death Valley wash |
 Desert Baccharis on the landscape |
 Desert Baccharis on the landscape |
 Desert Baccharis on the landscape |
 Desert Baccharis on the landscape |
 Many, upright, green stems |
 Stems and leaves near the base of the shrub |
 Stems and leaves near the base of the shrub |
 Stems are angular (two-photo composite) |
 Stems are angular (two-photo composite) |
 Young leaves tend to be long and wide |
 Leaves tend to be long and wide with notched edges towards to tip |
 Old leaves are variable (upper surface) |
 Old leaves are variable (lower surface) |
 Old leaves are variable (upper surface) |
 Old leaves are variable (lower surface) |
 Leaves drop by the time of flowering |
 Inflorescense open with flowers clustered at stem tips |
 Flowerheads |
 Flowerheads |
 Flowerheads |
 Flowerheads |
 Flowerheads |
 Flowerheads |
Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate. Names generally follow the USDA database.
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