Plants
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The vegetation of the Monument is a mix of common plants adapted to generally dry, warm summers and cool winters, and special plants that take advantage of small areas with specific micro-climates...
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Wildflowers Blooming from early spring to late fall, an amazing variety of wildflowers can be found in the Monument... | |
Ferns Ferns grow in sheltered, shady, moist areas, often at cave entrances. |
Grasses Grass is the foundation of many plant communities... |
Lichens Not really a plant, lichens are part algae, part fungus... |
Mosses and Liverworts Non-vascular plants are common in surprising places... |
Mushrooms and other Fungi Not a plant, fungi are essential to how plants get nutrients from the soil... |
Trees and Shrubs Very different trees and shrubs live on this arid landscape... |
Did You Know?
Pallid bats use complex social calls to track each other while hunting and to reassemble at roost sites. Unlike most echolocation, which occurs above the range of human hearing, social calls are produced at relatively low frequencies and can be heard by the unaided human ear.