Anza-Borrego Desert Wildflowers: Rare plants in the Anza Borrego Desert

The rare plants:


We, Carla and Fred are exploring the Anza-Borrego Desert since 2007 and are hiking almost daily in often remote area's.
You find a description of most of our hikes here:

Anza-Borrego Hiking website

In 2015 we started mapping Carlowrightia arizonica and Xylorhiza orcuttii and found that rare doesn't actually equals low numbers
A rare plants is often confined to a specific area and isn't usually found outside that area.


Here is our list of rare plants:


Carlowrightia arizonica


Ericameria teretifolia - Green rabbitbrush


Horsfordia newberryi - Newberry's velvet mallow


Xylorhiza orcuttii - Orcutt's woody-aster


We do have more on file, feel free to contact us.