Falls Trail Tour - Stop 13

Mormon Tea in bloom.

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Are you starting to notice some new plants? Leaving behind the towering ponderosas and scrubby oaks, you are now passing broad-leaved yucca (Yucca baccata), mormon tea (Ephedra viridis), and walkingstick cholla (Opuntia imbricate). The environment here is much drier and rockier than it was higher in the canyon. These plants have leaves that preserve water and lose less moisture to evaporation.