Saguaro, the Glossary
The saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) is a tree-like cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea that can grow to be over tall.[1]
Table of Contents
118 relations: Acanthochronology, Agricultural Research Service, Akimel O'odham, Alkaloid, Ambrosia deltoidea, Andrew Carnegie, Arizona, Asepsis, Austin Lounge Lizards, Autotroph, Bald eagle, Base pair, Bighorn sheep, Binomial nomenclature, Black-chinned hummingbird, Branch, Brassica tournefortii, Broad-billed hummingbird, Cactus, Callus (cell biology), Cave Creek Complex Wildfire, Cave Creek, Arizona, Cenchrus ciliaris, Chloroplast, Colorado, Costa's hummingbird, Crassulacean acid metabolism, Crown Publishing Group, Cuscuta, Diurnality, Echinocereeae, Ecological facilitation, El Paso, Texas, Elf owl, Endemism, Evapotranspiration, Flower, Fodder, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Gadsden Purchase, Genlisea, Genome, Genus, George Engelmann, Germplasm Resources Information Network, Gigantine, Gila woodpecker, Gilded flicker, Granuloma, Hardwood, ... Expand index (68 more) »
- Arizona culture
- Desert fruits
- Least concern flora of North America
Acanthochronology
Acanthochronology is the study of cactus spines or Euphorbia thorns grown in time ordered sequence (i.e. in series).
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Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Akimel O'odham
The Akimel O'odham (O'odham for "river people"), also called the Pima, are a group of Native Americans living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona, as well as northwestern Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua.
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Alkaloid
Alkaloids are a class of basic, naturally occurring organic compounds that contain at least one nitrogen atom.
Ambrosia deltoidea
Ambrosia deltoidea is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names triangle bur ragweed, triangle bursage, and triangleleaf bursage. Saguaro and Ambrosia deltoidea are Flora of Arizona, Flora of Sonora and Flora of the Sonoran Deserts.
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
Asepsis
Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, pathogenic fungi, and parasites).
Austin Lounge Lizards
The Austin Lounge Lizards are a musical group from Austin, Texas, formed in 1980.
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Autotroph
An autotroph is an organism that can convert abiotic sources of energy into energy stored in organic compounds, which can be used by other organisms.
Bald eagle
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.
Base pair
A base pair (bp) is a fundamental unit of double-stranded nucleic acids consisting of two nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds.
Bighorn sheep
The bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) is a species of sheep native to North America.
Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Black-chinned hummingbird
The black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) is a hummingbird occupying a broad range of habitats.
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Branch
A branch, also called a ramus in botany, is a stem that grows off from another stem, or when structures like veins in leaves are divided into smaller veins.
Brassica tournefortii
Brassica tournefortii is a species of plant known by the common names Asian mustard, pale cabbage, African mustard, and Sahara mustard, and is well known as an invasive species, especially in California.
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Broad-billed hummingbird
The broad-billed hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) is a small-sized hummingbird that resides in Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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Cactus
A cactus (cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. Saguaro and cactus are Drought-tolerant plants.
Callus (cell biology)
Plant callus (plural calluses or calli) is a growing mass of unorganized plant parenchyma cells.
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Cave Creek Complex Wildfire
The Cave Creek Complex Wildfire was the third largest forest fire in the state of Arizona to date, after the Rodeo–Chediski Fire and Wallow Fire.
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Cave Creek, Arizona
Cave Creek is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
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Cenchrus ciliaris
Cenchrus ciliaris (buffel-grass or African foxtail grass; syn. Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link) is a species of grass native to most of Africa, southern Asia (east to India), southern Iran, and the extreme south of Europe (Sicily).
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Chloroplast
A chloroplast is a type of membrane-bound organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal cells.
Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Costa's hummingbird
Costa's hummingbird (Calypte costae) is a bird species in the hummingbird family Trochilidae.
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Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions that allows a plant to photosynthesize during the day, but only exchange gases at night.
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Crown Publishing Group
The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House that publishes across several fiction and non-fiction categories.
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Cuscuta
Cuscuta, commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants.
Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.
Echinocereeae
The Echinocereeae are a tribe of cacti in the subfamily Cactoideae.
Ecological facilitation
Ecological facilitation or probiosis describes species interactions that benefit at least one of the participants and cause harm to neither.
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El Paso, Texas
El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.
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Elf owl
The elf owl (Micrathene whitneyi) is a small grayish-brown owl about the size of a sparrow found in the Southwestern United States, central Mexico, and the Baja California peninsula.
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Evapotranspiration
Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the combined processes which move water from the Earth's surface (open water and ice surfaces, bare soil and vegetation) into the atmosphere.
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Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
Fodder
Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.
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Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase (Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.
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Genlisea
Genlisea is a genus of carnivorous plants also known as corkscrew plants.
Genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
George Engelmann
George Engelmann, also known as Georg Engelmann, (2 February 1809 – 4 February 1884) was a German-American botanist.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network
Germplasm Resources Information Network or GRIN is an online USDA National Genetic Resources Program software project to comprehensively manage the computer database for the holdings of all plant germplasm collected by the National Plant Germplasm System.
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Gigantine
Gigantine is an tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloid found in Carnegiea gigantea and other related cacti.
Gila woodpecker
The Gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) is a medium-sized woodpecker of the desert regions of the southwestern United States and western Mexico.
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Gilded flicker
The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large woodpecker (mean length of) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, including all of Baja California, except the extreme northwestern region.
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Granuloma
A granuloma is an aggregation of macrophages (along with other cells) that forms in response to chronic inflammation.
Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.
Honey bee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.
Hooded oriole
The hooded oriole (Icterus cucullatus) is a medium-sized New World oriole.
House finch
The House finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) is a North American bird in the finch family.
Hualapai Mountains
The Hualapai Mountains are a mountain range located in Mohave County, east of Kingman, Arizona.
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Imperial County, California
Imperial County (Condado de Imperial) is a county located on the southeast border of the U.S. state of California.
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Isotope
Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.
Jan Brewer
Janice Kay Brewer (née Drinkwine, formerly Warren; born September 26, 1944) is an American politician and author who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015.
Joseph Nelson Rose
Joseph Nelson Rose (January 11, 1862 – May 4, 1928) was an American botanist.
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Keystone species
A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance.
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Larrea tridentata
Larrea tridentata, called creosote bush and greasewood as a plant, chaparral as a medicinal herb, and gobernadora (Spanish for "governess") in Mexico, due to its ability to secure more water by inhibiting the growth of nearby plants. Saguaro and Larrea tridentata are Flora of Arizona, Flora of Northwestern Mexico, Flora of Sonora, Flora of the California desert regions, Flora of the Sonoran Deserts, Flora of the Southwestern United States, natural history of the Colorado Desert and north American desert flora.
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Lesser long-nosed bat
The lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) is a medium-sized bat found in Central and North America.
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List of U.S. state and territory flowers
This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory flowers.
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Maricopa County, Arizona
Maricopa County is a county in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.
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Meristem
In cell biology, the meristem is a type of tissue found in plants.
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Monument Valley
Monument Valley (Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii,, meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching above the valley floor.
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NADPH dehydrogenase
In enzymology, a NADPH dehydrogenase is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction The 3 substrates of this enzyme are NADPH, H+, and acceptor, whereas its two products are NADP+ and reduced acceptor.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859 – 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York.
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National Register of Champion Trees
The National Register of Champion Trees is a list of the largest tree specimens found in the United States as reported to American Forests by the public.
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Nectar
Nectar is a viscous, sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection.
Nevada
Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.
New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
Nocturnality
Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA (nDNA), or nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid, is the DNA contained within each cell nucleus of a eukaryotic organism.
Old El Paso
Old El Paso is a brand of Tex-Mex-style foods from American food producer General Mills.
Ovule
In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to and contains the female reproductive cells.
Paradise Valley, Arizona
Paradise Valley is a desert and mountain town in Arizona east of state capital Phoenix, of which it is a suburb.
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Parkinsonia microphylla
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. Saguaro and Parkinsonia microphylla are Flora of the California desert regions, Flora of the Sonoran Deserts and Garden plants of North America.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
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Plastid
A plastid is a membrane-bound organelle found in the cells of plants, algae, and some other eukaryotic organisms.
Pollination syndrome
Pollination syndromes are suites of flower traits that have evolved in response to natural selection imposed by different pollen vectors, which can be abiotic (wind and water) or biotic, such as birds, bees, flies, and so forth through a process called pollinator-mediated selection.
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Pollinator
A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
Purple martin
The purple martin (Progne subis) is a passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae.
Rocky Mountain Research Station
The Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) is one of five regional units that make up the United States Forest Service Research and Development organization — the most extensive natural resources research organization in the world.
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Saguaro boot
A saguaro boot is the hard shell of callus tissue, heavily impregnated with lignin, that a saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) creates to protect the wound created by a bird's nesting house. Saguaro and saguaro boot are cacti of Mexico, Flora of Arizona, Flora of the Sonoran Deserts, Flora of the Southwestern United States and north American desert flora.
Saguaro National Park
Saguaro National Park is a United States national park in Pima County, southeastern Arizona.
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Scott's oriole
The Scott's oriole (Icterus parisorum) is a medium-sized icterid (the same family as many blackbirds, meadowlarks, cowbirds, grackles, and others, including the New World orioles).
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Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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Self-incompatibility
Self-incompatibility (SI) is a general name for several genetic mechanisms that prevent self-fertilization in sexually reproducing organisms, and thus encourage outcrossing and allogamy.
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Senegalia greggii
Senegalia greggii, formerly known as Acacia greggii, is a species of tree in the genus Senegalia native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, from the extreme south of Utah south through southern Nevada, southeast California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas to Baja California, Sinaloa and Nuevo León in Mexico. Saguaro and Senegalia greggii are Flora of the California desert regions, Flora of the Sonoran Deserts, natural history of the Colorado Desert, north American desert flora and plants used in Native American cuisine.
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Seri people
The Seri or Comcaac people are an Indigenous group of the Mexican state of Sonora.
Sonora
Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.
Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert (Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California).
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Southwestern United States
The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Stem succulent
Stem succulents are fleshy succulent columnar shaped plants which conduct photosynthesis mainly through their stems rather than their leaves.
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Tanning (leather)
Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
The Cactaceae
The Cactaceae is a monograph on plants of the cactus family written by the American botanists Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose and published in multiple volumes between 1919 and 1923.
Tohono Oʼodham
The Tohono Oʼodham (Oʼodham) are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
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Transpiration
Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers.
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Tucson, Arizona
Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.
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Tyrant flycatcher
The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America.
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United States and Mexican Boundary Survey
The United States and Mexican Boundary Survey (1848–1855) determined the border between the United States and Mexico as defined in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which had ended the Mexican–American War.
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United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats in the United States.
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United States Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land.
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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Verdin
The verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) is a species of penduline tit.
Water-use efficiency
Water-use efficiency (WUE) refers to the ratio of plant biomass to water lost by transpiration, can be defined either at the leaf, at the whole plant or a population/stand/field level.
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Whipple Mountains
The Whipple Mountains (Mojave: Avii Kur'utat; Chemehuevi: Wiyaatuʷa̱) are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California.
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White-winged dove
The white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica) is a dove whose native range extends from the Southwestern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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Whole genome sequencing
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is the process of determining the entirety, or nearly the entirety, of the DNA sequence of an organism's genome at a single time.
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William H. Emory
William Hemsley Emory (September 7, 1811 – December 1, 1887) was a prominent American surveyor and civil engineer of the 19th century.
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Wren
Wrens are a family of brown passerine birds in the predominantly New World family Troglodytidae.
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See also
Arizona culture
- American Family Day
- Arizona Highways
- Arizona cheese crisp
- Arizona room
- Cactus Cooler
- Chandler Center for the Arts
- Cold Stone Creamery
- Cuisine of Arizona
- Del Webb
- Eegee's
- Ethnic groups in Arizona
- Kachina
- Languages of Arizona
- List of city nicknames in Arizona
- List of films shot in Arizona
- Miss Arizona
- Miss Arizona USA
- Miss Arizona's Outstanding Teen
- Music of Arizona
- Painted Desert Project
- Religion in Arizona
- Saguaro
- Snowbird (person)
- Sports in Arizona
- Tempe Center for the Arts
- Territorial Cup Series
- The Wallace and Ladmo Show
- Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation
Desert fruits
- Acanthosicyos horridus
- Austrocylindropuntia floccosa
- Boscia senegalensis
- Capparis decidua
- Capparis lasiantha
- Capparis mitchellii
- Cereus repandus
- Citrullus ecirrhosus
- Citrus glauca
- Cochemiea dioica
- Cucumis metuliferus
- Date palm
- Date palm farming in Pakistan
- Datura lanosa
- Ficus lilliputiana
- Ficus petiolaris
- Ficus platypoda
- Hyphaene thebaica
- Leichhardtia australis
- Medemia
- Mongongo
- Opuntia
- Opuntia aciculata
- Opuntia engelmannii
- Opuntia ficus-indica
- Opuntia littoralis
- Opuntia macrocentra
- Opuntia macrorhiza
- Opuntia phaeacantha
- Opuntia setispina
- Pachycereus pringlei
- Pitaya
- Prunus fasciculata
- Prunus fremontii
- Prunus ilicifolia
- Saguaro
- Santalum acuminatum
- Sclerocarya birrea
- Selenicereus costaricensis
- Selenicereus undatus
- Solanum centrale
- Solanum incanum
- Stenocereus thurberi
- Strychnos pungens
- Strychnos spinosa
- Wattleseed
- Yucca baccata
- Ziziphus mauritiana
- Ziziphus spina-christi
Least concern flora of North America
- Agave lechuguilla
- Alnus acuminata
- Arbutus arizonica
- Calocedrus decurrens
- Caribbean pine
- Citharexylum berlandieri
- Cochemiea thornberi
- Commelina diffusa
- Dryopteris goldieana
- Eriocaulon aquaticum
- Hesperocyparis arizonica
- Jack pine
- Juniperus coahuilensis
- Juniperus durangensis
- Juniperus horizontalis
- Lilaeopsis schaffneriana
- Liquidambar styraciflua
- Lobelia laxiflora
- Muhlenbergia cuspidata
- Muhlenbergia lindheimeri
- Ocotea puberula
- Pinus ayacahuite
- Pinus cembroides
- Pinus edulis
- Pinus flexilis
- Pinus hartwegii
- Pinus strobiformis
- Podocarpus guatemalensis
- Quercus albocincta
- Quercus conzattii
- Quercus depressa
- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Quercus fulva
- Quercus gravesii
- Quercus liebmannii
- Quercus martinezii
- Quercus planipocula
- Quercus praeco
- Quercus sebifera
- Quercus toumeyi
- Roystonea princeps
- Saguaro
- Tabebuia rosea
- Thuja plicata
- Trillium cernuum
- Trixis californica
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro
Also known as Cactus plugging, Carnegeia, Carnegia gigantea, Carnegiea, Carnegiea gigantea, Carnegiea gigantes, Cereus giganteus, David Grundman, Giant Saguaro, Saguaro Blossom, Saguaro Cactus, Saguaro cacti, Saguaros, Sahuaro.
, Honey bee, Hooded oriole, House finch, Hualapai Mountains, Imperial County, California, Isotope, Jan Brewer, Joseph Nelson Rose, Keystone species, Larrea tridentata, Lesser long-nosed bat, List of U.S. state and territory flowers, Maricopa County, Arizona, Meristem, Mitochondrial DNA, Monotypic taxon, Monument Valley, NADPH dehydrogenase, Nathaniel Lord Britton, National Register of Champion Trees, Nectar, Nevada, New Mexico, Nocturnality, Nuclear DNA, Old El Paso, Ovule, Paradise Valley, Arizona, Parkinsonia microphylla, Photosynthesis, Plastid, Pollination syndrome, Pollinator, Precipitation, Purple martin, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Saguaro boot, Saguaro National Park, Scott's oriole, Scottsdale, Arizona, Self-incompatibility, Senegalia greggii, Seri people, Sonora, Sonoran Desert, Southwestern United States, Species, Stem succulent, Tanning (leather), Texas, The Cactaceae, Tohono Oʼodham, Transpiration, Tribe (biology), Tucson, Arizona, Tyrant flycatcher, United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Forest Service, Utah, Verdin, Water-use efficiency, Whipple Mountains, White-winged dove, Whole genome sequencing, William H. Emory, Wren.