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Field Notes

Description:

Spiky cactus like plant with a large flower

Habitat:

Southern California foothills

Species ID Suggestions

Yucca plant
PhenixRhyder
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Comments (3)
PhenixRhyder
Not sure it's sotol. Sotol has long skinnier floral stems. These look like some sort of Joshua plant. Not the tree.
toss_an_apple
The plant does have prickles on the leaves. Thanks for identifying it for me!
chrismarx
does it have little prickles on the edges of the leaves? I'm thinking maybe sotol - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasylirion_wheeleri
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PublishedMarch 31, 2011

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