Resurrection Moss
Easily one of the coolest plants to be found in the Chihuahuan desert, and goes by a long list of common names, such as the Rose of Jericho, resurrection plant, dinosaur plant, siempre viva, stone flower, doradilla, resurrection flower and many more. This attractive member of the spikemoss family looks almost like a lush, green fern during the rainy season in its native habitat of Northern Mexico, Texas and New Mexico, but during dry spells, it desiccates into a brown dormant ball that looks like a tumbleweed, only to rehydrate back to bright, vibrant green after it rains again. These were found in abundance after the springtime rains in West Texas' Big Bend National Park.
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Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Chihuahuan Desert, Doradilla flower, Isoetopsida, Lycopod, Lycopodiophyta, Lycopodium lepidophyllum, Plantae, S. lepidophylla, Selaginella, Selaginella lepidophylla, Selaginellaceae, Selaginellales, Texas, botany, color, desert, desert plant, dinosaur plant, doradilla, evergreen, false rose of Jericho, fern, flower of stone, forb, green, herb, native, natural, nature, perennial, plant, plants, resurrection fern, resurrection flower, resurrection moss, resurrection plant, rose of Jericho, siempre viva, southwest, spike-moss, spikemoss, spring, stone flower, tumbleweed, wild, Chiricahua, Chiricahua Desert, Chiricahuan, desert, Big Bend National Park, National Park, NP, BBNP, Chiricahuan Desert
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