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SOUTHWESTERN MONUMENTS ASSOCIATION POPULAR SERIES NO. 4

Globe, Arizona 1954

Copyright 1951, 1952, 1954 by the Southwestern Monuments Association

U. S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Southwestern National Monuments Gila Pueblo, Globe, Arizona

This booklet is published by the Southwestern Monuments Association in keeping with one of its objectives, to provide accurate and authentic information about the Southwest.

Other numbers of the Popular Series now in print are: (2) “Arizona’s National Monuments,” 1946; (3) “Poisonous Dwellers of the Desert,” in its fourth printing, 1951; (5) “Flowers of the Southwest Mesas,” 1951; (6) “Tumacacori’s Yesterdays,” 1951; (7) “Flowers of the Southwest Mountains,” 1952; and (8) “Animals of the Southwest Deserts,” April, 1954.

A Technical Series will embody results of research accomplished by the staff and friends of Southwestern National Monuments.

Notification of publications by the Association will be given upon date of release to such persons or institutions as submit their names to the Executive Secretary for this purpose.

Dale Stuart King, Executive Secretary Harry B. Boatright, Treasurer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John M. Davis, General Superintendent, Southwestern National Monuments, National Park Service, Gila Pueblo, Globe, Arizona, Chairman

Horace M. Albright, New York City.

Adrey E. Borell, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Dr. Harold S. Colton, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Dr. Emil W. Haury, Tucson, Arizona.

Rev. Victor R. Stoner, Victoria, Texas.

Alexander V. Wasson, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Executive Secretary and Treasurer, ex-officio

DALE STUART KING, Editor Naturalist, Southwestern National Monuments

First Edition, 5,000 copies, published April 9, 1951 Second edition, revised, of 7,500 copies, January, 1952 Third edition, revised, of 10,000 copies, March, 1954

Printed in the United States of America by Rydal Press, Santa Fe, N.M.

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1. Big Bend National Park

2. Carlsbad Caverns National Park

3. Casa Grande National Monument

4. Chiricahua “ “

5. Death Valley “ “

6. Joshua Tree “ “

7. Montezuma Castle “ “

8. Organ Pipe Cactus “ “

9. Saguaro “ “

10. Tonto “ “

11. Tumacacori “ “

12. White Sands “ “

13. Lake Mead Nat’l Recreation Area

Desert Areas of the West—this booklet deals with the common plants of three of them: (1) the Chihuahua; (2) the Sonoran; and (3) the Mojave.

Plants of the higher plateau country of from 4,500 to 7,000-feet elevation are shown and described in “Flowers of the Southwest Mesas,” companion volume to this one, by Pauline M. Patraw and Jeanne R. Janish, 1951.

Mountain zone vegetation (from the Ponderosa Pine belt, or about 7,000 feet, on up) is the subject of “Flowers of the Southwest Mountains,” the third of the triad, by Leslie P. Arnberger and Jeanne R. Janish.

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FLOWERS OF THE SOUTHWEST DESERTS

By Natt N. Dodge Drawings by Jeanne R. Janish