File:Intermountain milkwort, Polygala intermontana (46510619975).jpg
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intermountain milkwort, Polygala intermontana, Nevada, White Mountains, Montgomery Pass, Columbus Salt Marsh drainage, elevation 2402 m (7880 ft). This is one of those virtually unnoticed, oddball shrubs that help make the desert such a fun place for botanists to explore. When not in flower, with their spiky green branches and narrow leaves, these low shrubs are easily mistaken for more common subshrubs like spiny menodora (Menodora spinescens) or Nevada greasebush (Glossopetalon spinescens). But one close look at the flowers and it is unmistakably a milkwort. Intermountain milkwort is found in the mountains across the southern Great Basin and central Colorado Plateau, from eastern California to southeast Utah and northeast Arizona, mainly in the pinyon-juniper woodland zone on clay-rich soils up to about 3000 meters (10000 feet) elevation. It is distinguished from a similar, more southern species, thorny milkwort (Polygala acanthoclada) by its longer and hairless flower stalks and much less hairy leaves and flower parts. |
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| Author | Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA |
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