Flowering Shin Oak, Eddy County, New Mexico, showing its typical low, thicket-forming habit. Photo: bobnieman / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Quercus havardii, known as
A Papershell Pinyon at Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Brewster County, Texas. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Pinus remota, the Papershell Pinyon, is a
Mormon Tea’s leafless, jointed green stems with ripening red fruit. Photo: Meghan Cassidy / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Ephedra antisyphilitica, commonly called Mormon Tea,
Little Nipple Cactus in bloom, Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Photo: DataEcologist / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Mammillaria heyderi, the Little Nipple Cactus, is a
Cob Cactus in bloom on a limestone flat, Fort Hood, Bell County, Texas. Photo: lanechaffin / iNaturalist via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Coryphantha sulcata, known as
A pair of flowering Thompson’s yucca in Trans-Pecos Texas habitat, their white blooms held well above the blue-green rosettes. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain /
A large Rough Agave rosette, its broad blue-gray leaves edged with wavy, horn-colored teeth. Photo: Raúl Ernestoo, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Agave asperrima (long
A Foothill Beargrass clump in Cottonwood Canyon, Texas, its fine, arching leaves blending into the surrounding desert grassland. Photo: Fritz Hochstaetter, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
A mature Devil’s Shoestring clump forms a dense, rounded mound of wiry, grasslike leaves on a limestone bank in the Edwards Plateau. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
A mature Buckley’s yucca clump on a brushy Texas rangeland, with a flower stalk just beginning to rise from the rosette. Photo: Rebou, Wikimedia Commons
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