Sentence examples for sand sunflower from inspiring English sources

The sand sunflower, for instance, is limited to sand dunes in Utah and northern Arizona and the puzzle sunflower to brackish salt marshes in West Texas and New Mexico.

Loren H. Rieseberg of the University of British Columbia and colleagues have found that two widespread species, the common sunflower and prairie sunflower, have combined at least three times to give rise to three hybrid species: the sand sunflower, the desert sunflower, and the puzzle sunflower.

Indeed, recent field tests that examined the relative ability of the parental species to thrive in the hybrids' habitat, and vice versa, found that the sand sunflower was better able than its parents to germinate, grow and survive in its dune habitat but fared relatively poorly in parental habitats.

and northern crotons (C. glandulosus L). and sand sunflower (Helianthus debilis Nutt)., and a variety of cacti such as Texas prickly pear (Opuntia lindheimeri Salm-Dyck ex Elgelm var. lindheimeri [Engelm.] Parfitt & Pinkava) and tasajillo (O. leptocaulis [D.C.] F.M. Knuth) (Everitt et al. 2002).

In the past, your paintings had sand, lead, sunflower seeds, all kinds of things embedded in them.

He predicts annuals will be at their peak until mid-March, with "hundreds of thousands of acres" of desert sunflower, sand verbena and dune evening primrose around the Borrego Valley.

Add your flowers, strong flowers can just be laid flat on the sand, flat blooms like sunflowers should have their stems cut short and laid face up.

These scientists found that one sunflower species on sand dunes has evolved independently three separate times.

What looks like a bowl of sea foam subsides into a milky sauce of roast sunflower seeds bathing open clamshells embedded in sand-colored barley.

That pale, sand-colored sauce is a kind of tahini made of sunflower seeds.

Taller willows, grasses, and plants in the sunflower and legume families (Asteraceae and Leguminosae, respectively) are common on the sands and gravels of riverbanks, but vegetation is quite sparse on higher lands, foothills, and Arctic mountains.