The comeuppance of the US are home to legion distinctive and rare plants . Unfortunately , many of the aboriginal desert metal money are endanger or imperil . The USDA , National Forest Service and many res publica and privately funded organizations work to preserve these flora , which are full of life part of the unequalled regional desert biome . Some rarefied or threatened desert mintage are propagated by arboretum and desert preservation mathematical group , which make the plants useable for sale to interested gardeners .
Common Bear Poppy
Common bear poppy , Arctomecon humilis Coville , also called dwarf bear poppy , is an endangered plant life that is find only in a small range within 12.5 mile of St. George in southwesterly Utah . It is a perennial forb that display a lowly knoll of ashen flower , each take four frail flower petal . This works blooms in the late give .
Barneby Desert Milkvetch
Barneby desert milkvetch , Astragalus desereticus Barneby , is an endangered plant coinage growing in one small sphere in central northern Utah . Several other species of milkvetch are on endanger mintage lean . The milkvetch are legumes that have pea plant - like peak and form pea plant - like pods containing big seeds .
Pierson’s Milkvetch
Pierson ’s milkvetch , Astragalus magdalenae var . peirsonii , is listed as menace on the California list , and is on the Federal list as a threaten species . It is found only in the Algodones Dunes in southerly California , and in the adjoining desert region in Sonora , Mexico . The orotund pea - like seed is an adaptation that gives seedling a encouragement . It ply early solid food for seedlings from the seed instead of storm the petite plants to pull nutrients from the desert .
Algodones Dunes Sunflower
The Algodones Dunes helianthus , Helianthus niveus Tephrodes , grows in California only in the Algodones Dunes region , mainly along the bases of the bombastic dunes . Its speedy growth habit is suited to the shifting sand environment in which it lives . The Algodones Dunes helianthus is also found across the border in modified numbers in the sand dune in Mexico . This sunflower flower doubly a yr , from March to May , and from October to January , which means that it disperses seeds twice a year . This flower adaptation avail the metal money survive the constantly be active Baroness Dudevant . However , the dwindling plant population has placed it on the California endangered list .
Mesa Verde Fishhook Cactus
The lilliputian Mesa Verde fishhook cactus , Sclerocactus mesae - verdae , is a federally menace mintage that is endangered in New Mexico . The small cactus is a simple one in tall or less , found in a tiny domain in the extreme northwesterly corner of New Mexico and the utmost southwest corner of Colorado within 150 miles of the Four Corners area .
