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Desert-

The sun sets on Saguaro National Park and its namesake cactus. Photo by Nate Hovee.

Desert plants tend to look very different from plants native to other regions. They are often swollen, spiny, and have tiny leaves that are rarely bright green. Their strange appearance is a result of their remarkable adaptations to the heat of the desert. Aridity is the sole factor that defines a desert and is the primary limitation to which desert organisms must adapt. These plants have developed three main adaptive strategies: succulence drought, tolerance drought, and avoidance drought. Each of these is a different suite of adaptations for prospering under conditions that would kill plants from other regions. Desert plants are adapted by their small leaves that help reduce moisture loss during photosynthesis. Small leaves mean less evaporative surface per leaf.

Desert-
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Beavertail cactus-
They grow on-top of beaver-tail Cactus's, that is a low-growing prickly pear, thats about 4-16 inches tall

 

Salvia columbariae - Victorian Salvia Study Group  
Chia-
Known as salvia columbariae, these plants grow 10-50 cm tall. It's stem hairs are short and sparse in distribution. It has oblong-ovate basal leaves that are 2-10 cm long.

 

Arida arizonica - Arid Tansyaster, Arid Machaeranthera, Desert Tansy-aster, Silver Lake Daisy (flower)  
aster pauciflorus-
Known as a rhizomatous perennial forb these plants have white to pale blue petals, pale yellow disk flowers, and linear, clasping leaves. They are also 12-40cm tall.

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Brittlebush-
Brittlebush grows up to 30 to 150 centimetres tall, and 3–10 cm long, they are arranged in random spots above the leafy stems of the bush.

 

Beloperone californica, Chuparosa  
Beloperone-
They can grow up to 15 feet tall. It loses its leaves and then produces plentiful tubular flowers that are about 2.5–4 cm long between February and June.

 

   

Water-

Pond

Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments like saltwater or freshwater. They are also referred to as hydrophytes or macrophytes to distinguish them from algae and other microphytes. In lakes and rivers macrophytes provide cover for fish, and also acts as food for some fish and wildlife. Aquatic plants require special adaptations for living submerged in water, or at the water's surface. The most common adaptation is the presence of lightweight internal packing cells, aerenchyma, but floating and finely dissected leaves are also common.

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Lotus-

Known as Nelumbo nucifera, and maybe also known as sacred lotus, Laxmi lotusIndian lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the Nelumbonaceae family.

 

Water Lilies-

Known as Nymphaea, this plant is also in the Nymphaeaceae family. The genus name is from the Greek νυμφαία, nymphaia and the Latin nymphaea, which means "water lily" and were inspired by the nymphs of Greek and Latin mythology.

 

Pickerel Plant-

Also known as Pontederia cordata, this is a monocotyledonous aquatic plant, that is native to the American continents. It grows in a variety of wetlands.

 

Mosaic pond plant-

The Mosaic Plant is a tropical plant that needs very warm water to grow properly (minimum water temperature of 72F). They have beautiful mosaics in shades of red and green, that form rosettes that seem to 'float' on the surface of the water.

Water Lettuce-

A Pistia or "water lettuce" is a type of aquatic plant in the arum family, Araceae. Its native home is unknown but it's most likely pantropical. It was first discovered from the Nile near Lake Victoria in Africa
   

Jungle-

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The warm humid climate of tropical rainforests provides the perfect environment for a huge variation of amazing plant life. In the rainforest the problem is not that there is not enough water but that there is often too much. Plants that live in the rainforest must be able to survive in areas that receive a lot of rain and may even flood. Many plants have waxy leaves that help repel the rain. The leaves of many trees have a drip tip which is designed to have rain run off of them quickly. The high humidity and plentiful of rain in the rainforest enable some plants to actually grow without soil. These types of plants are called air plants or aerial plants. They get nutrients from plant debris and bird droppings that land on their roots and are not dependent on the poor soil of the forest.

 

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Passion Flower-
Passiflora, also known as the passion flowers or passion vine. They are part of the Passifloraceaefamily. The vast majority of Passiflora are found in Mexico, Central America, the United States and South America, although there are some more relitives in Southeast Asia and Oceania.
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Guzmania-
The guzmania is in the Bromeliaceaefamily. They are a genus of over 120 species of flowering plants in this family. They are mainly stemless, native to Florida, West Indies, southern Mexico, Central America, South America.

 

Poinsettia-
The poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) is an important flowering plant species of the Euphorbiaceae family. They are native to Mexico and Central America, the poinsettia was first described by Europeans in 1834. 

 

Expanded lobster claw-

Expanded Lobster Claw (Heliconia latispatha) is native to southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru) and naturalized in Florida and Jamaica. It goes up to 4 m tall, with leaves resembling bananas. 

 

Hibiscus-

Hibiscus is a flowering plant in the Malvaceae family . They are quite large, and native to warm and tropical regions throughout the world.They can also be known as showy flowers, rose mallow, hardy hibiscus, rose of sharon, and tropical hibiscus.

 

   

Forest-

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Plants growing on the forest floor are adapted to lower sunlight because of the shade. This is because, the dense canopy does not allow enough light to go through the tall trees and reach the forest floor. These Plants have shallow roots to help capture nutrients from the top level of soil. Drip tips on leaves help them shed excess water. Prop roots help support plants in the shallow soil. Some plants collect rainwater into a central reservoir.

 

Forest-

Viola langsdorffii (Alaska Violet)  
Alaska Violet-

An alaska violet also known as a viola langsdorffii, is a type of Viola. It is around 5 to 30 cm long. Alaskan violets can usually be found near the Boreal and Humid Transition coast, Aleutian Islands to central Oregon, where it extends inland to Marion County.

 

Fairy Slipper-

Known as calypso, this is a type of orchid, but commonly known as the calypso orchid, fairy slipper or Venus's slipper. It is a member of the orchid family. Native to northern and montane forests. It has a small pink, purple, pinkish-purple, or red flower with a white lip, darker purple spottings, and yellow beards. The fairy slipper takes its name from the Greek signifying concealment.

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Willowherbs-

Willowherbs (epilobiums) is a type of flowering plant in the Onagraceae family. This flower has a worldwide distribution. It is most prevalent in the subantarctic , in the subtropics and tropic regions. Epilobium species are restricted to the cool montane biomes, such as the New Guinea Highlands.

Dwarf rose-

A dwarf rose (rosa gymnocarpa) is a shrub that grows up to 2 metres in height. Its stem is covered with long, straight spines. Rosa gymnocarpa is a species of rose native to western North America. It also has the names baldhip rose, and wood rose.

philadelphia fleabane-

Erigeron philadelphicus, the Philadelphia fleabane, is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. Other common names include common fleabane, daisy fleabane, frost-root, marsh fleabane, poor robin's plantain, skervish, in the British Isles, robin's-plantain, but all of these names are shared with other species of fleabanes. It is native to North America and has been introduced to Eurasia.

   

Snowy-

Snowy forest.

Some plants have special physiological adaptations to combat freezing temperatures, where they can activate a special protein called CBF. Freezing resistance is the number one sieve that species must pass through to live in cold climates. The spectrum of freezing resistance reflects the spectrum of life conditions, and no plant can be found in this planet's periodically cold regions that is not resistant to the local low temperature extremes. Since most of the cells organisms are operating at or slightly below a 1 molar cell sap concentration, such a marginal gain in freezing point depression would require at least doubling concentration. The actual processes involved are water extraction from the cell through extracellular ice formation that requires a fluid outer cell membrane at low temperature, protective compounds such as certain sugars and proteins to safeguard membranes, and enzymes against damage during dehydration.

Snowy-

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Catmint-

Catmint is a hardy, herbaceous perennial that needs very little care or maintenance during the winter. This plant goes dormant and will die back completely in the coldest of the hardiness zones. Catmint may stay semi-evergreen in warmer climates. The plant still goes dormant, but for a shorter period of time.

 

Pansy-

The pansy is a type of large-flowered hybrid or a Viola and wittrockian plant cultivated as a garden flower. It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section Melanium.

 

Flowering Kale: The Coolest Cool-Season Ornamental - Here By Design
Flowering Kale-

Long before it became a food, flowering kale was a garden plant, delivering a pop of color to fall’s landscape. It’s also one of just a few species that thrives in cold weather. In fact, flowering kale likes cold temperatures so much that it often stays attractive well into winter.

Dusty Miller-

Known as centaurea cineraria, but more commonly known as dusty miller and silver dust. Centaurea cineraria is in the Asteraceae family and is native to Italy. It grows on coastal cliffs, ranging from 0–350 m above sea level. These plants can reach 80 centimeters in height.

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Dianthus-

A dianthus is a flower in the Caryophyllaceae family. They are native to Europe and Asia, with a few in north and southern Africa, and one species in the arctic North America. Common names include carnation, pink and sweet william.

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