Le Jardin de Mère Nature dans une Petite Planète - Pima County

drainages; within rocky drainage ways; rocky banks of creeks, drainages and drainage ways; floodplains,
and riparian areas growing in dry bouldery, bouldery-rocky, rocky, gravelly and sandy ground and
gravelly loam ground, occurring from 1,900 to 5,200 feet in elevation in the grassland, desertscrub and
wetland ecological formations. NOTES: This plant may be an attractive component of a restored native
habitat, the flowers open in the evening and close in the early morning, this plant is slow growing and
may be drought deciduous, it may best be used planted with succulents in rock gardens. Haplophyton
crooksii is native to southwest-central and southern North America. *5, 6, 13, 15, 16, 43 (110509), 46
(Page 651), 58, 63 (0110509), 77 (color photograph #4), 85 (110509 - color presentation), 115 (color
presentation), 138, MBJ*
Asclepiadaceae: The Milkweed Family
Cynanchum arizonicum (A. Gray) L.H. Shinners: Arizona Swallow-wort
SYNONYMY: Metastelma arizonicum A. Gray. COMMON NAMES: Arizona Milkweed Vine,
Arizona Smallwort, Arizona Swallow-wort, Arizona Swallowwort, Milkweed Vine. DESCRIPTION:
Terrestrial perennial forb/herb or vine (a twining vine to 40 inches in length); the leaves are green; the
small flowers are cream-white, white, pale yellow or yellowish; flowering generally takes place between
mid-January and mid-December. HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported from
mountains; rocky mountainsides; mesas; rocky crags; rocky canyons; canyon bottoms; bases of cliffs;
ridges; ridgetops; foothills; bouldery and rocky hills; rocky hilltops; rocky hills; rocky hillsides; rocky
slopes; rocky outcrops; amongst boulders; valley floors; low sand dunes near beaches; arroyos; along
sandy bottoms of arroyos; gulches, ravines, around seeping streams; creeks; along rocky washes; rocky
drainages; rocky drainage ways, and riparian areas growing in dry bouldery, rocky and sandy ground,
occurring from sea level to 5,300 feet in elevation in the woodland, scrub, grassland and desertscrub
ecological formations. NOTE: Cynanchum arizonicum is native to southwest-central and southern North
America. *5, 6, 15, 16, 43 (110709), 46 (Metastelma arizonicum Gray, Page 663), 58, 63 (110709), 77
(color photograph #61), 85 (110709)*
Gonolobus parvifolius (see Matelea parvifolia)
Matelea parvifolia (J. Torrey) R.E. Woodson: Spearleaf
SYNONYMY: Gonolobus parvifolius J. Torrey. COMMON NAMES: Angle-pod, Anglepod,
Littleleaf Matelea, Little Leaf Milk Vine, Milkweed Vine, Small-leaf Anglepod, Small-leaved Milkvine,
Spearleaf. DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial shrub or vine (a clambering, climbing and twining vine
16 inches to 5 feet in length); the stems are gray-green or green; the leaves are green; the flowers may be
black, dark brownish-purple, green, greenish-purple, dark purple or purple-brown; based on few
flowering records examined, flowering generally takes place between early March and mid-May and
between mid-October and early December (flowering records: three for late January, three for early
March, three for mid-March, four for late March, three for early April, two for mid-April, one for early
May, one for mid-May, one for mid-October, one for late October, five for early November, one for mid-
November, one for late November and one for early December); the fruits are long, warty, green seed
pods. HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported from rocky mountains; rocky
mountainsides; mesas; rocky canyons; canyon bottoms; rocky ridge tops; ridgelines; rocky and stonygravelly
hills; rocky and rocky-gravelly hillsides; bouldery and rocky slopes; bajadas; amongst boulders
and rocks; bouldery, cobbly, gravelly and gravelly-sandy flats; along roadsides; along arroyos; springs;
rivers; along and in rocky washes; along drainages; edges of washes; floodplains, and rocky riparian areas
growing in dry bouldery, rocky, rocky-gravelly, stony-gravelly, cobbly and gravelly soils, occurring from
1,200 to 5,000 feet in elevation in the woodland, scrub, grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecological
formations. NOTE: Matelea parvifolia is native to southwest-central and southern North America. *5, 6,