The Mojave yucca seems to be the kind that grows near me. This one complements the West Temple and Mount Kinesava nicely.
The Zion nature centers tend to focus on how the indians used the yucca. They ate the fruits green, dried and stored over winter. They ate them baked, mixed with berries, and made into [...]

As it turns out, the blackbrush was just getting started!
The previous post about blackbrush seems to have attracted quite a few fans! Who knew blackbrush was that popular?
At the end of the post, I wrote, “The blackbrush has been blooming pretty nice this year in Color Country, however. But only in isolated patches.”
As it turns [...]

The trick is surviving the hard times.
A lot of Color Country is covered with blackbrush – Coleogyne ramosissima Torr. “Torr” means that it got it’s official botanical name from John Torrey, a New York botanist. It seems that John Fremont, who passed through these parts in 1844, collected a few specimens and sent them along [...]