Mimosa aculeaticarpa

A common spiny shrub of low desert. Usually called "catclaw" or "catclaw acacia" rather than the alleged common name "wait-a-minute bush", perhaps on grounds of euphony, and thus easily confused with Acacia greggii.



Leaves and spines, on the west bajada of the Organs, 7/31/05.

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