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As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

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The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...