Elizabeth A. Powell has an MS in biology and a PhD in botany. She has published a number of scientific papers on pollination ecology and conservation biology. As the botanist for LMNRA (1996–2005), she managed rare and invasive plants.Frederick H. Landau was a research associate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he conducted research on plant ecology and physiology and also taught courses in plant taxonomy, economic botany, and field ecology. He has resided in the Mojave Desert since 1977.Lawrence R. Walker has an MS in botany and a PhD in plant ecology. He has published more than 140 scientific papers and eleven books, including A Natural History of the Mojave Desert with Frederick H. Landau. He taught ecology, conservation biology, and scientific writing for thirty years.

• Cover PageTitle pageCopyright PageDedicationContentsPrefaceLake Mead National Recreation AreaPlant EcologyPlant CommunitiesLife FormsOrganizational NotesTreesDesert WillowWestern Honey MesquiteSmoketreeTurbinella Oak (Shrub Live Oak)Singleleaf Pinyon PineTree TobaccoAthelShrubsWhite Bursage (Burrobush)Woolly BursageSeepwillow (Mulefat)Parish's GoldeneyeSweetbush (Chuckwalla's Delight)Virgin River BrittlebushSticky SnakeweedPygmy CedarPaperflower (Paper-Daisy)Spiny GoldenbushFour-Wing SaltbushShadscaleWinterfatTorrey EphedraSand CrotonSpiny SennaPima RhatanyDesert SageThurber's Sandpaper PlantGlobemallow (Desert Mallow)Desert AlmondDesert Rue (Turpentine Broom)SaltcedarCreosotebushCactiTeddybear Cholla (Jumping Cholla)Silver Cholla (Golden Cholla)Hedgehog CactusDevil Cholla (Parish's Club-Cholla)Fishhook CactusPygmy Barrel Cactus (Johnson's Bee-Hive Cactus)YuccasBeargrass (Bigelow's Nolina)Mojave YuccaSedges and GrassesCalifornia Sawgrass (Twig Rush)Red BromeFluffgrassSixweeks Fescue (Sixweeks Grass)Common ReedMediterranean GrassSouthern CattailAquatic PlantsSpiny Naiad (Holly-Leaved Water-Nymph)Wildflowers - White/CreamWoolly Bluestar (Small-Leaved Amsonia)Pebble PincushionWhite Woolly Daisy (Woolly Sunflower)Rock Daisy (Emory's Rock Daisy)Odora (Slender Poreleaf)Nevada CryptanthaWinged-Nut CryptanthaFlattened Combseed (Wide-Toothed Pectocarya)White-Margined Spurge (Rattlesnake Weed)Smallseed SandmatRock NettleDune Primrose (Birdcage Oenothera)White Desert GoldYerba Mansa (Lizard Tail)Sacred Datura (Jimson Weed)SunrayWoolly Daisy (Wallace's Woolly Daisy)Desert DandelionNevada Goldenrod (Showy Goldenrod)Fiddleneck (Desert Fiddleneck)Sahara MustardPrince's PlumeDesert Birdfoot Trefoil (Deervetch)White-Stemmed Blazing Star (White-Stemmed Stick-Leaf)Las Vegas Bearpoppy (Bearpaw Poppy)Little Gold PoppyLittle Desert TrumpetTrailing MilkweedSpanish NeedlesWire LettuceTumbleweed (Russian thistle)Filaree (Cranesbill, Redstem Filaree)Weakstem MariposaSand VerbenaGiant Four O'ClockPalmer's Penstemon (Beardtongue)Rock GiliNotchleaf Phacelia (Scorpionweed)Yellowthroats (Fremont's Phacelia)Palmer's PhaceliaDesert Larkspur (Mojave Larkspur)HoneysweetPeppergrassWoolly PlantainSpiny Herb (Devil's Spineflower)Desert MistletoeFlower Color Cross-Reference GuideLeaf ShapesLeaf ArrangementsFlowersInflorescence TypesGlossarySuggested ReadingIndex>About the Authors

"The authors are eminently qualified to offer this guidebook, and their knowledge about the plants of LMNRA emerges throughout its pages."—James M. André, director of the University of California's Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, author of Floras of the Mojave National Preserve and Owens Valley"Powell, Landau, and Walker have written a concise book that will be useful to millions of annual visitors to the LMNRA."—David Charlet, professor of biology at the College of Southern Nevada, author of Atlas of Nevada Conifers: A Phytogeographic Reference

Elizabeth A. Powell has an MS in biology and a PhD in botany. She has published a number of scientific papers on pollination ecology and conservation biology. As the botanist for LMNRA (1996–2005), she managed rare and invasive plants.Frederick H. Landau was a research associate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he conducted research on plant ecology and physiology and also taught courses in plant taxonomy, economic botany, and field ecology. He has resided in the Mojave Desert since 1977.Lawrence R. Walker has an MS in botany and a PhD in plant ecology. He has published more than 140 scientific papers and eleven books, including A Natural History of the Mojave Desert with Frederick H. Landau. He taught ecology, conservation biology, and scientific writing for thirty years.

• Cover PageTitle pageCopyright PageDedicationContentsPrefaceLake Mead National Recreation AreaPlant EcologyPlant CommunitiesLife FormsOrganizational NotesTreesDesert WillowWestern Honey MesquiteSmoketreeTurbinella Oak (Shrub Live Oak)Singleleaf Pinyon PineTree TobaccoAthelShrubsWhite Bursage (Burrobush)Woolly BursageSeepwillow (Mulefat)Parish's GoldeneyeSweetbush (Chuckwalla's Delight)Virgin River BrittlebushSticky SnakeweedPygmy CedarPaperflower (Paper-Daisy)Spiny GoldenbushFour-Wing SaltbushShadscaleWinterfatTorrey EphedraSand CrotonSpiny SennaPima RhatanyDesert SageThurber's Sandpaper PlantGlobemallow (Desert Mallow)Desert AlmondDesert Rue (Turpentine Broom)SaltcedarCreosotebushCactiTeddybear Cholla (Jumping Cholla)Silver Cholla (Golden Cholla)Hedgehog CactusDevil Cholla (Parish's Club-Cholla)Fishhook CactusPygmy Barrel Cactus (Johnson's Bee-Hive Cactus)YuccasBeargrass (Bigelow's Nolina)Mojave YuccaSedges and GrassesCalifornia Sawgrass (Twig Rush)Red BromeFluffgrassSixweeks Fescue (Sixweeks Grass)Common ReedMediterranean GrassSouthern CattailAquatic PlantsSpiny Naiad (Holly-Leaved Water-Nymph)Wildflowers - White/CreamWoolly Bluestar (Small-Leaved Amsonia)Pebble PincushionWhite Woolly Daisy (Woolly Sunflower)Rock Daisy (Emory's Rock Daisy)Odora (Slender Poreleaf)Nevada CryptanthaWinged-Nut CryptanthaFlattened Combseed (Wide-Toothed Pectocarya)White-Margined Spurge (Rattlesnake Weed)Smallseed SandmatRock NettleDune Primrose (Birdcage Oenothera)White Desert GoldYerba Mansa (Lizard Tail)Sacred Datura (Jimson Weed)SunrayWoolly Daisy (Wallace's Woolly Daisy)Desert DandelionNevada Goldenrod (Showy Goldenrod)Fiddleneck (Desert Fiddleneck)Sahara MustardPrince's PlumeDesert Birdfoot Trefoil (Deervetch)White-Stemmed Blazing Star (White-Stemmed Stick-Leaf)Las Vegas Bearpoppy (Bearpaw Poppy)Little Gold PoppyLittle Desert TrumpetTrailing MilkweedSpanish NeedlesWire LettuceTumbleweed (Russian thistle)Filaree (Cranesbill, Redstem Filaree)Weakstem MariposaSand VerbenaGiant Four O'ClockPalmer's Penstemon (Beardtongue)Rock GiliNotchleaf Phacelia (Scorpionweed)Yellowthroats (Fremont's Phacelia)Palmer's PhaceliaDesert Larkspur (Mojave Larkspur)HoneysweetPeppergrassWoolly PlantainSpiny Herb (Devil's Spineflower)Desert MistletoeFlower Color Cross-Reference GuideLeaf ShapesLeaf ArrangementsFlowersInflorescence TypesGlossarySuggested ReadingIndex>About the Authors

"The authors are eminently qualified to offer this guidebook, and their knowledge about the plants of LMNRA emerges throughout its pages."—James M. André, director of the University of California's Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, author of Floras of the Mojave National Preserve and Owens Valley"Powell, Landau, and Walker have written a concise book that will be useful to millions of annual visitors to the LMNRA."—David Charlet, professor of biology at the College of Southern Nevada, author of Atlas of Nevada Conifers: A Phytogeographic Reference

Elizabeth A. Powell has an MS in biology and a PhD in botany. She has published a number of scientific papers on pollination ecology and conservation biology. As the botanist for LMNRA (1996–2005), she managed rare and invasive plants.Frederick H. Landau was a research associate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he conducted research on plant ecology and physiology and also taught courses in plant taxonomy, economic botany, and field ecology. He has resided in the Mojave Desert since 1977.Lawrence R. Walker has an MS in botany and a PhD in plant ecology. He has published more than 140 scientific papers and eleven books, including A Natural History of the Mojave Desert with Frederick H. Landau. He taught ecology, conservation biology, and scientific writing for thirty years.

• Cover PageTitle pageCopyright PageDedicationContentsPrefaceLake Mead National Recreation AreaPlant EcologyPlant CommunitiesLife FormsOrganizational NotesTreesDesert WillowWestern Honey MesquiteSmoketreeTurbinella Oak (Shrub Live Oak)Singleleaf Pinyon PineTree TobaccoAthelShrubsWhite Bursage (Burrobush)Woolly BursageSeepwillow (Mulefat)Parish's GoldeneyeSweetbush (Chuckwalla's Delight)Virgin River BrittlebushSticky SnakeweedPygmy CedarPaperflower (Paper-Daisy)Spiny GoldenbushFour-Wing SaltbushShadscaleWinterfatTorrey EphedraSand CrotonSpiny SennaPima RhatanyDesert SageThurber's Sandpaper PlantGlobemallow (Desert Mallow)Desert AlmondDesert Rue (Turpentine Broom)SaltcedarCreosotebushCactiTeddybear Cholla (Jumping Cholla)Silver Cholla (Golden Cholla)Hedgehog CactusDevil Cholla (Parish's Club-Cholla)Fishhook CactusPygmy Barrel Cactus (Johnson's Bee-Hive Cactus)YuccasBeargrass (Bigelow's Nolina)Mojave YuccaSedges and GrassesCalifornia Sawgrass (Twig Rush)Red BromeFluffgrassSixweeks Fescue (Sixweeks Grass)Common ReedMediterranean GrassSouthern CattailAquatic PlantsSpiny Naiad (Holly-Leaved Water-Nymph)Wildflowers - White/CreamWoolly Bluestar (Small-Leaved Amsonia)Pebble PincushionWhite Woolly Daisy (Woolly Sunflower)Rock Daisy (Emory's Rock Daisy)Odora (Slender Poreleaf)Nevada CryptanthaWinged-Nut CryptanthaFlattened Combseed (Wide-Toothed Pectocarya)White-Margined Spurge (Rattlesnake Weed)Smallseed SandmatRock NettleDune Primrose (Birdcage Oenothera)White Desert GoldYerba Mansa (Lizard Tail)Sacred Datura (Jimson Weed)SunrayWoolly Daisy (Wallace's Woolly Daisy)Desert DandelionNevada Goldenrod (Showy Goldenrod)Fiddleneck (Desert Fiddleneck)Sahara MustardPrince's PlumeDesert Birdfoot Trefoil (Deervetch)White-Stemmed Blazing Star (White-Stemmed Stick-Leaf)Las Vegas Bearpoppy (Bearpaw Poppy)Little Gold PoppyLittle Desert TrumpetTrailing MilkweedSpanish NeedlesWire LettuceTumbleweed (Russian thistle)Filaree (Cranesbill, Redstem Filaree)Weakstem MariposaSand VerbenaGiant Four O'ClockPalmer's Penstemon (Beardtongue)Rock GiliNotchleaf Phacelia (Scorpionweed)Yellowthroats (Fremont's Phacelia)Palmer's PhaceliaDesert Larkspur (Mojave Larkspur)HoneysweetPeppergrassWoolly PlantainSpiny Herb (Devil's Spineflower)Desert MistletoeFlower Color Cross-Reference GuideLeaf ShapesLeaf ArrangementsFlowersInflorescence TypesGlossarySuggested ReadingIndex>About the Authors

"The authors are eminently qualified to offer this guidebook, and their knowledge about the plants of LMNRA emerges throughout its pages."—James M. André, director of the University of California's Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, author of Floras of the Mojave National Preserve and Owens Valley"Powell, Landau, and Walker have written a concise book that will be useful to millions of annual visitors to the LMNRA."—David Charlet, professor of biology at the College of Southern Nevada, author of Atlas of Nevada Conifers: A Phytogeographic Reference