13. Desert Mallow: Desert mallow, or Sphaeralcea, is a perennial shrub with silvery-gray leaves and showy clusters of orange or pink flowers. It is drought-tolerant and thrives in sandy soil.
“The white-margined penstemon is a beautiful emblem of the Mojave Desert’s biodiversity, but we’re at risk of losing it forever ... A low-growing perennial that favors sandy washes and dunes, the ...
The small herbaceous plant with delicate pale pink flowers grows in alkali wetlands in two desert basins in western Nevada and eastern California. Its existence is threatened by groundwater pumping ...