Wordless Wednesday: Early Spring in the Chihuahua Desert

Take a spring tour through the Chihuahua Desert!

Green returns!

Green returns

Native cottonwood. Populous deltoides subsp. wislizenii

Sunbathing locals

Greater Earless Lizard (male) Cophosaurus texanus

Greater Earless Lizard (juvenile or female) Cophosaurus texanus

Poppies

Poppies carpet the desert

Poppies

Poppy

Early blooming cactus, Echinomastus intertextus

Happy Spring Everyone! Male House Finch

All photos courtesy of Benny Pol, Texas Master Naturalist

Submitted by Sylvia Hacker,
Doña Ana Co. Master Gardeners (On Facebook)
Texas Master Naturalist
Las Cruces, New Mexico

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One Response to “Wordless Wednesday: Early Spring in the Chihuahua Desert”

LoriAnne Barnett says:

March 14, 2013 at 12:48 pm

Great photos, thanks for sharing! Nice examples of spring phenology – life cycles in action!

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