Desert Willow
This gorgeous desert bloomer with orchid-like flowers is actually a member of the bignonia family, and is interesting taxonomically because it is the sole species of its genus: Chilopsis . Found across much of the American Southwest (and also in the state of Georgia) it has become an important drought-tolerant landscape plant in many places where water is often scarce. This one was found by following the sound of buzzing bees in a canyon in the Colorado Desert near California's Salton Sea.
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- ©2015
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- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Asterids, Bignoniaceae, C. linearis, California, California orchid tree, Chilopsis, Chilopsis linearis, Chilopsis linearis subsp. arcuata, Colorado Desert, Eudicots, Lamiales, Mecca, Plantae, Riverside County, Tecomeae, Trumpet flower, United States, beautiful, beauty, bignonia, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, catalpa, color, desert, desert willow, desert-willow, dicot, flora, flower, flowering willow, flowers, fresh, green, monotypic, native, natural, nature, orchid tree, perennial, pink, plant, plants, shrub, southwest, southwestern, spring, stripe, striped, stripes, tree, trumpet-creeper, white, wild, wildflower, wildflowers, willow-leaved catalpa
- Contained in galleries
- Bignoniaceae (Catalpa Family), White Wildflowers
