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Parkinsonia microphylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Rosids
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Subfamily:
Caesalpinioideae
Genus:
Parkinsonia
Species:
P. microphylla
Binomial name
Parkinsonia microphylla
Torr.
Natural range
Synonyms
Cercidium microphyllum(Torr.) Rose & I.M. Johnst.
Parkinsonia microphylla, the yellow paloverde, foothill paloverde or little-leaved palo verde; syn. Cercidium microphyllum), is a species of palo verde.
It is native to the Southwestern United States in southeastern California and southern Arizona; and to northwest Mexico in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora, and Baja California. The plant is mostly found on slopes, and is one of the most common trees of the Sonoran Desert.
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Parkinsoniamicrophylla, the yellow paloverde, foothill paloverde or little-leaved palo verde; syn. Cercidium microphyllum), is a species of palo verde...
rarely survives to 100 years. Compared to the closely related Parkinsoniamicrophylla (foothill paloverde), it appears more decumbent in overall form...
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include creosote bush (Larrea tridentata), yellow palo verde (Parkinsoniamicrophylla), white bursage, (Ambrosia dumosa), smoke tree (Psorothamnus spinosus)...
is the palo verde, although wild specimens of other Parkinsonia species (P. florida, P. microphylla and P. sonorae among the most common) are attacked...
shrub ecosystems with the palo verde tree (Parkinsoniamicrophylla). In the washes, Colorado/Sonoran microphylla woodlands can be found. These woodlands...
the short-lived leaves, like the unrelated Foothill palo verde (Parkinsoniamicrophylla) which it closely resembles. Its leaves are insignificant scales...
trees found are restricted to dry watercourses; these include paloverde (Parkinsonia), the desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), desert ironwood (Olneya tesota)...
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