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An evergreen shrub with fragrant cream flowers and feathery-tailed seeds.
Cliffrose is a shrub or small tree, 2 to about 11 feet tall, with small, lobed evergreen leaves. Its showy, fragrant flowers have five white to cream petals, and its seeds carry feathery tails.
At Arches it grows in desert shrub, grassland and pinyon-juniper communities. Its fruit is food for wildlife. References use several scientific names for it, listed with this page's basics.
The feathery seed tails make it easy to spot after flowering.
A drought-tolerant evergreen with scale-covered twigs, fibrous bark, and berry-like cones that feed wildlife.
A broad-crowned river tree whose new generations depend on the right combination of flowing water, exposed sediment, and moisture.
A flexible-stemmed native shrub whose late-season yellow flowers extend feeding opportunities for pollinators.