Glossopetalon spinescens
A. Gray
Nevada greasewood, Spiny greasebush
Glossopetalon spinescens is a shrub that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in western North America.
Bloom Period
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Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Joshua Tree Woodland
[Wikipedia] Taxonomy: Glossopetalon spinescens was described by the American botanist Asa Gray in 1853, based on a specimen collected by Charles Wright in 1852 in a mountain ravine near a location called 'Frontera', in either New Mexico or Texas.[3]
