Our initial visits to the site were in September and October 2015.

On 3/30/2016 I again visited the Kendall Grassland and Lucky Hills sites to collect GPS coordinates.

I recorded GPS locations and took digital photographs of the standing vegetation.

Lucky Hills

Species Observed

Shrubs

Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) + Mexican Buckthorn or Warnock's Snakewood (Condalia warnockii)?

Little Leaf Desert Sumac (Rhus mycrophylla)?

Tarbush (Flourensia cernua)?

 Aloysia wrightii (Wrights Beebush)??

Creosote (Larrea tridentata) 

White thorn Acacia (Acacia spp.) 

Mormon Tea (Ephedra spp.)

Acacia (acacia neovernicosa) (Vachellia vernicosa)?

Mariola (Parthenium incanum)?

Smallest shrubs (Vigiuera spp?)

Kendall Grassland

Species Observed

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Grasses

Lehmann lovegrass ( Erograstis lehmanniana ) (also, see panoramas above)

Grama grasses (Bouteloua spp) (below in foreground below, Lehmann's in background)

Woody plants / Shrubs

Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)

(Krameria parvifolia)

Mesquite (Prosopis velutina)

Creosote (Larrea tridentata) 

Mexican Buckthorn or Warnock's Snakewood (Condalia warnockii)?

Mormon Tea (Ephedra)

Hymenoclea monogyra?

Little leaf desert sumac (Rhus mycrophylla)?

Fairy Duster (Calliandra eriophylla)

Yuccas / Agaves

Banana Yucca ( Yucca baccata )

Soaptree Yucca (Yucca elata)

Palmer's Agave (Agave spp.)?

Succulents

Staghorn Cholla

Other Features

Ground Squirrel Mounds

Reference Pages

http://www.saguaro-juniper.com/i_and_i/agavesNyuccas/agavesNyuccas.htm

http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php