A mature Ashe Juniper near Austin, Texas, showing its characteristically dense, pyramidal crown. Photo: Bubblesorg / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Juniperus ashei, commonly known
ʻĀkia forms a dense, low mound of rounded gray-green leaves, studded with tiny yellow flowers. Photo: Forest & Kim Starr / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY
River Hawthorn in flower, showing its sharply toothed leaves and clustered white blossoms. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) Crataegus rivularis, the River Hawthorn, is a
Geiger Tree flower and leaf cluster, Delray Beach, Florida. Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 US) Cordia sebestena, commonly called the
A mature Fleshy Hawthorn grown as a single-trunked tree, showing its rounded, dense crown. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5) Crataegus succulenta, the Fleshy Hawthorn
California fuchsia in full fall bloom, its tubular scarlet flowers built for hummingbirds. Photo: Jerry Kirkhart / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Epilobium canum (long
A mature tarbush shrub on a rocky bajada in the Chihuahuan Desert — one of the defining shrubs of this ecoregion. Photo: aspidoscelis / Wikimedia
Coralbean in full spring bloom, its scarlet flower spikes rising before the leaves emerge. Photo: Judy Gallagher / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Erythrina herbacea,
Longleaf pine and wiregrass habitat near Fayetteville, North Carolina. Photo: Historic American Landscapes Survey, Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Aristida stricta, commonly
A mature water hickory trunk, showing its rough, shaggy bark. Photo: Will McFarland, via iNaturalist/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Carya aquatica, commonly called Water Hickory
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