Mojave National Preserve
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Below you will find a simplified plant list for the Mojave National Preserve. They are organized by trees, shrubs, cactus, grasses and annuals, or you can jump directly the category you are interested by clicking the buttons below. Trees Shrubs Cactus Grasses Annuals Trees Common Name Scientific Name Family Desert Willow Chilopsis linearis Catalpa Smoke Tree Dalea spinosa Pea Honey Mesquite Prosopis juliflora Pea Cat Claw Acacia Acacia greggii Pea New Mexican Locust Robinia Neomexicana Pea Single Leaf Pinyon Pinus Monophylla Pine Two Leaf Pinyon Pinus Edulis Pine California Juniper Juniperus californicus Cypress Utah Juniper Juniperus utahensis Cypress Fremont's Cottonwood Populus fremontii Willow Coyote Willow Salix exigua Willow Gooding's Willow Salix Gooddingii Willow Shrub Live Oak Quercus turbinella Beech Canyon Live Oak Quercus chrysolepis Beech Tamarisk Salt Cedar Tamarix pentandra Tamarisk Athel Tamarix aphylla Tamarisk Joshua Tree Yucca brevifolia Lily Shrubs Common Name Scientific Name Family Big sage Brush Artemisia tridentata Sunflower Bud Sage Artemisia spinescens Sunflower Dwarf Sage Artemisia arbusculo nova Sunflower White Bursage Ambrosia dumosa Sunflower Woolly Fruited Bursage Franseria eriocentra Sunflower Baccharis - Seep Willow Baccharis sp. Sunflower Sweet Bush Bebbia juncea aspera Sunflower Brickell Bush Brickellia sp. Sunflower Black Banded Rabbit Bush Chrysothamnus paniculatas Sunflower Golden Rabbit Bush Chrysothamnus nauseous Sunflower Brittle Bush Encelia farinosa Sunflower Rayless Encelia Encelia frutescens Sunflower Snake Weed Gutierrezia sp. Sunflower Golden Bush Haplopappus sp. Sunflower Cheese Bush Hymenoclea salsola Sunflower Mohave Aster Aster abatus Sunflower Pygmy Cedar Peucaphyllum schottii Sunflower Arrow Leaf Hoffmeisteria pluriseta Sunflower Paper Flower Psilostroph cooperi Sunflower Groundsel Senecio sp. Sunflower Horse Brush Tetradymia sp. Sunflower Golden Eye Viguiera deltoidea Sunflower Four Wing Saltbush Atriplex canescens Goosefoot All Scale Atriplex polycarpa Goosefoot Shad Scale Atriplex confertifolia Goosefoot Desert Holly Atriplex hymenolytra Goosefoot Spiny Hopsage Grayia spinosa Goosefoot Greasewood Sarcobatus vermiculata Goosefoot Winter Fat Eurotia lanata Goosefoot Mahonia - Barberry Berberis sp. Barberry Desert Senna - Cassia Cassia armata Pea Indigo Bush Dalea fremontii Pea Ratany Krameria sp. Pea Cliff Rose Cowania mexicana Rose Apache Plume Fallugia paradoxa Rose Antelope Bush Purshia tridentata Rose Black Brush Coleogyne ramossissima Rose Range Almond Prunus fasciculata Rose Mormon Tea - Ephedra Ephedra sp. Joint Fir Yerba Santa Eriodictyon angustifolia Water Leaf California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculata Buckwheat Heerman's Buckwheat Eriogonum heermannii Buckwheat Ocotillo - Coach Whip Fourquieria splendens Fourquiera Desert Olive - Forestiera Forestiera neo mexicana Olive Single Leaf Ash Fraxinus anomola Olive Spiny Menodora Menodora spinescens Olive Silk Tassel Garrya flavescens Garrya Coffee Berry - Pigeon Berry Rhamnus californica Buckthorn Evergren Buckthorn Rhamnus crocea Buckthorn California Lilac Ceanothus vestita Buckthorn Bladder Pod Isomeris arborea Caper Bush Penstamen Penstamen microphylla Snapdragon Creosote Bush Larrea tridentata Caltrop Desert Thorn Lycium sp. Potato Jimson Weed - Datura Datura sp. Potato Sandpaper Plant Petalonyx thurberi Loasa Squaw Bush Rhus trilobata Cashew Turpentine Broom Thamnosma montana Rue Mohave Sage Salvia mohavensis Sage Great Basin Blue Sage Salvia carnosa Sage Rose Sage Salvia pachyphylla Sage Chia Salvia columbarie Sage Mohave Yucca Yucca schidigera Lily Banana Yucca Yucca baccata Lily Bear Grass - Nolina Nolina sp. Lily Century Plant Agave deserti Lily Cactus Common Name Scientific Name Family Hedge Hog Cactus Echinocereus sp. Cactus Cotton Top Echinocactus polycephalus Cactus Barrel Cactus Ferocactus acanthodes Cactus Buck Horn Cholla Opuntia acanthacarpa Cactus Silver Cactus Opuntia echinocarpa Cactus Teddy Bear Cholla Opuntia bigelovia Cactus Old Man Cactus Opuntia erinacea Cactus Darning Needle Opuntia ramosissima Cactus Grasses Common Name Scientific Name Family Big Galleta Hilaria rigida Grass Indian Rice Grass Oryzopsis hymenoides Grass Bush Muhly Muhlenbergia porteri Grass Fluff Grass Erioneuron pulchella Grass Red Brome Bromus rubens Grass Desert Needle Stipa speciosa Grass Annuals Common Name Scientific Name Family Fiddleneck Amsinckia sp. Borage Little White Forget-Me-Not Cryptantha sp. Borage Dune Primrose Oenothera deltoides Evening Primrose Heron's Bill Erodium circutarium Geranium Desert Hyacinth Brodiaea capitata Lily Weak Stem Mariposa Calochortus flexuosa Lily Red Mariposa Calochortus kennedyi Lily Desert Milkweed Asclepias erosa Milkweed Water Cress Rorippa sp. Mustard Golden Gilia Linanthus aureus Phlox Prickly Poppy Argemone sp. Poppy Miner's Lettuce Montia sp. Purslane Monkey Flower Mimulus sp. Snapdragon Fragrant Penstamen Penstamen palmeri Snapdragon Fremont's Pin Cushion Chaenactis fremontii Sunflower Wallace Daisy Eriophyllum wallacei Sunflower Desert Dandlion Malocothryx glabrata Sunflower Desert Chicory Rafinesquia californica Sunflower Purple Mat Nama demissum Waterleaf Canterbury Bells Phacelia campanularia Waterleaf