| Rough menodora | |
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| illustration circa 1895 [1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Oleaceae |
| Genus: | Menodora |
| Species: | M. scabra |
| Binomial name | |
| Menodora scabra | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Menodora scabra (formerly Menodora scoparia) [3] is broom-like shrub in the Olive Family (Oleaceae), known by the common name rough menodora or broom twinberry. [4] It is a popular desert garden plant. [4]
It is native to the southwestern United States (Colorado, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas and California) and northern Mexico (Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, Sonora), where it grows in varied mountain, plateau, and desert habitat. [5] [6] [7]
Menodora scabra is a small, multibranched subshrub producing several upright stems no more than 30 centimeters tall. It is coated in rough hairs and short, woolly fibers.
The leaves are oblong or oval, smooth along the edges, and opposite on the lower parts of the stems, becoming alternate above [8] . They are 1-3 cm long and 1-6 mm wide, the larger leaves located lower on the plant.
The inflorescence is a loose cluster of yellow flowers at the tip of a stem branch. The flower corolla has 4 to 6 lobes with the stamens and stigma protruding from the short throat. The fruit is a capsule. [9] [10] [11]
Native American Navajo people developed cold infusion of this plant to treat heartburn and facilitate labor for childbirth. A root decoction was used to treat spinal pain. [12]
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Baccharis sergiloides is a species of Baccharis known by the common name desert baccharis.
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Arida arizonica,, is an annual plant in the, known by the common names arid tansyaster, desert tansyaster, and Silver Lake daisy. It is native to the very arid deserts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, and usually looks straggly and not very attractive. But in years with very heavy rainfall, it fills out and becomes rounded and bush like.
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Lycium pallidum is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common names pale wolfberry and pale desert-thorn. It is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. In Mexico it can be found in Sonora, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi. In the United States it occurs from California to Texas and as far north as Utah and Colorado.
Agave palmeri is an especially large member of the genus Agave, in the family Asparagaceae.
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