Desert dry wash is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) occurring in the flat bottoms of canyons and drainages that lack water at or near the surface most of the year, and are subject to periodic severe flooding events.[1] Desert dry wash is contrasted with desert riparian vegetation, which occurs in desert canyons and drainages where there is year-round water at or near the surface.[1] Plants must either be able to survive the severe flooding conditions or be able to reestablish themselves before the next flooding event.[1] Some of these plants have evolved so that in order for their seeds to germinate, the seeds must be scarified or abraded by tumbling sand, gravel, and rocks during the flooding event.[1] They must then quickly send down roots deep enough to be able to tap into deep underground water reserves, in order to survive the dry period after the flooding.[1] Common dominant species of the desert dry wash include smoke tree (Psorothamnus spinosus), desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), catclaw (Senegalia greggii), cheesebush (Ambrosia salsola), and waterweed (Baccharis sergiloides).[1]
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Desertdrywash is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) occurring in the flat bottoms of canyons and drainages that lack water at or near...
grows in creosote bush scrub, alkali sink, and desertdrywash areas in the central and eastern Mojave Desert from Barstow, California to Arizona and Sonora...
the desertdrywash vegetation type, in which water at or near the surface is lacking most of the year, such as arroyos. Over 80% of known desert wildlife...
be found on the roadways and in the surrounding desert. Near its terminus at Las Vegas Bay, the wash passes under the man made Lake Las Vegas through...
forestland at altitudes of 50 to 1700 meters. It commonly occurs in desertdrywash, creosote bush scrub, Joshua tree woodland, and pinyon-juniper woodland...
cold desert (composed of about 98% thick continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock). Some of the barren rock is to be found in the so-called Dry Valleys...
The Battle of Big DryWash was fought on July 17, 1882, between troops of the United States Army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment and 6th Cavalry Regiment and members...
wash begins in the Clover Mountains in Lincoln County, Nevada and flows south across very sparsely populated desert terrain. The area around the wash...
Yuma County, Arizona. It is 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Yuma, Arizona. Drywashes are the major watershed feed systems to Imperial Reservoir. The next upstream...
A desert planet, also known as a dry planet, an arid planet, or a dune planet, is a type of terrestrial planet with an arid surface consistency similar...
example, to the Mojave's dry summers and cold winters). This creates an extreme contrast between aridity and moisture. The Sonoran desert wraps around the northern...
sediment to fill in the eroded channel, turning previous washes into ridges running through desert regions. Wadi Bani Khalid in the Northern Governorate...
ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens). In areas of intermittent water steams (desertdrywash), ironwood (Olneya tesota), yellow paloverde (Parkinsonia microphylla)...
around the fruits. It is widespread in sandy and gravelly slopes, desertdrywashes, and canyons in the southwestern deserts of North America, including...
European holly. Desert holly grows in alkaline locations such as desertdrywash and creosote bush scrub in the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert down to Baja...
are located in the Great Basin. Curlew Valley Escalante Desert Great Salt Lake Desert Miry Wash Grouse Creek Thousand Springs Creek Hamlin Valley Pilot...
Oklahoma and Texas. It grows at the edge of desertdrywashes in the eastern Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert at altitudes below 610 meters (2,000 feet)...
Arizona, and Baja California. Its tall yellow flower stalks dot dry rocky slopes and washes throughout the spring. It forms a rosette of fleshy gray-green...
found along roadsides, desertdrywashes, and flat areas up to 4,200 feet (1,300 m), in the western Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert to Baja California Peninsula...
Desert north to Inyo County, California, and in the Sonoran Desert south to the Baja California Peninsula. It is found on dry slopes and desertdry washes...
the white bur-sage (Ambrosia dumosa). It is common on sandy desert flats, desertdrywashes, and is weedy in disturbed sites in creosote bush scrub, shadscale...
Baja California. As a phreatophyte, it is well adapted to ephemeral desertwashes and sandy streams. It can be found through much of the southwestern...
open desert chaparral). These plants are flammable during the late summer and autumn months when conditions are characteristically hot and dry. They...
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