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Sonoran Desert Pinks

Mostly annual herbs. Some with showy flowers - others with green, non-showy. Leaves opposite at swollen stem nodes.

Hairy Rupturewort

Herniaria hirsuta cinerea

 

 

Photo by Mike Plagens

Spring annual grows prostrate on soil. Plants small and covered with glistening hairs. Flowers minute, green. This photo is part of the Wikimedia Commons.     Detailed Description

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