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Habitat: bajadas, washes
Life Form: medium shrub
Leaf Description: alternate simple leaves
Flower Color: greenish
Flowering Period: Dec. to July
Spines: spineless
Family: Buxaceae (box family)
Abundance: present
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References
"Arizona Flora", Thomas A. Kearney and Robert H. Peebles, 1960, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London (out of print)
page 521
"A Field Guide to the Plants of Arizona", Ann Orth Epple and Lewis E. Epple, 1995, Falcon Press, Helena, Montana and LewAnn Publishing Co., Mesa, AZ
plate 836
page 137
"Native Plants for Southwestern Landscapes", Judy Mielke, 1993, University of Texas Press, Austin
page 255
page 257
"Deserts: The Audubon Society Nature Guides", MacMahon, James A. 1985. Knopf, Chanticleer Press, NY
plate 347
page 501
"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert", Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Steven J. Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus. 2000. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Tucson
page 256
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