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Desert Plants

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Websites
Desert plants and wildflowers, includes color photos, articles and wildflower field guide.
http://www.desertusa.com/flora.html

Vegetation of Mojave National Preserve, San Bernardino County, California, and autoecology of Swertia albomarginata, Coleogyne ramosissima, and Salvia dorrii .
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Tom Schweich's Home Page  Desert plant collections of Annie Alexander and Louise Kellogg Under Construction A Bibliography on Great Basin Blue Sage (Salvia dorrii) A Bibliography on Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) GEOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE SOUTHWEST: Carl Albert Purpus, Plant Collector in Western America,...
http://www.schweich.com

Peter van der Puyl's photos and descriptions of succulents in South Africa and Namibia.
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Peter van der Puyl's Home Page  I have been writing for some years articles for the Dutch Journal Succulenta about home hobbying with succulents, also writing about the Canary Islands and now about my last trip in Namibia and South Africa. My special interests in succulents...
http://www.cactus-mall.com/puyl/index.html

Article describing the environmental degradation that has taken place in the Saharan regions, and how it can be overcome.
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Threats to the survival of plants native to the Sahara Desert  Threats to the survival of plants native to the Sahara Desert Articles Written: March 1992 Environmental degradation has taken place in the Sahara region over the past centuries. 5000 year old cave paintings have been found along the Libyan border...
http://www.eden-foundation.org/project/sahrplnt.html

Descriptions, images, and range of many species.
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New Mexico Rare Plant Website  This resource should be cited as New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council. 1999. New Mexico Rare Plants. Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Rare Plants Home Page. http nmrareplants.unm.edu (Latest update: 9 June 2005 Photo credits in header Peniocereus greggii var. greggii...
http://nmrareplants.unm.edu/

The principal objective of this project is to produce a comprehensive lichen flora index for the Sonoran Desert and adjacent regions. Includes genera and species lists.
http://ces.asu.edu/ASULichens/sonoran/sonoran.html