Sunday, March 02, 2008

Big Bend desert plants

This is some of the plant life in the desert at Big Bend.











This is a sotol plant:






This is probably a flower from the cactus in the third pic:



This was seen on a canyon floor:



This is one type of yucca (others were also seen...):



I think this is a flower from another type of yucca, but I'm unsure:



2 comments:

mdmnm said...

That spiny yucca looking plant is lechuguilla- http://texnat.tamu.edu/cmplants/toxic/plants/lechuguilla.html

Big patches of it can be really hard to find a path through and those spines hurt!

mdmnm said...

Sorry for the double post- that fruit on the cactus is from a tasajilla cactus. Great Big Bend photos!