Goldenflower century plant (Agave chrysantha), in red rock country near Sedona, in Yavapai County, Arizona.
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Desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister) with a regenerated tail tip, at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
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Post-monsoon blooms on fishhook barrel cacti (Ferocactus wislizeni). At the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Fireworks.
An explosion of late-season ocotillo blossoms (Fouquieria splendens), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. Ocotillo is usually a spring bloomer, but the plants are drought deciduous, and sometimes they will re-bloom in late summer after monsoon rains. The spring flowers typically occur in a more compact inflorescence.
Etymology note: Ocotillo is a Spanish diminutive derived from the Nahuatl loan word ocotl, meaning torch, hence little torch.
Gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Dead fern est morte.
Fossil fern (Pecopteris bucklandi) at the Redpath Museum of Natural History at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
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Prickly pear blossom and nopales
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