Flora normally found in the deserts of West Texas, such as catclaw mimosa and soaptree yucca, also occur on dry sites. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I didn't even feel it at the time but I'd sliced myself to ribbons on the catclaw. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Absolutely worst, though, is the catclaw that grows in the draws and flats out around Big Bend. ❋ Unknown (2008)
At middle elevations, dense thickets of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa form chaparral communities. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At middle elevations, a chaparral community occurs beneath the trees, composed of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Common and characteristic plants include several acacias: boat-thorned acacia (Acacia cochliacantha), and tree catclaw, or tésota (Acacia occidentalis). ❋ Unknown (2007)
The reason my mood is no longer swinging wildly but settling into familiar, well-paced tracks marked with catclaw scratches and gusts of wind, that's from you too, y'know. ❋ Jaxraven (2006)
Mesquite: strong flavor--not exactly tangy like the catclaw, but like SuperHoney, however not much aftertaste ❋ Kate (2005)
The biscuits made for another good honey sampling opportunity and Brian challenged my declaration that the wildflower honey was blah--he thought it was stronger than the catclaw. ❋ Kate (2005)
He had to hammer the catclaw deep into the smooth part of the stone, pull himself up, trust his weight to it while he hand-walked his height up the smooth wall, reached for the rope ... then suddenly drew back. ❋ Forward, Eve (1995)
The slopes were covered with piñón pines, mesquite, alligator juniper, catclaw mimosa, lechuguilla, mountain and banana yucca, and scrub oak. ❋ David Roberts (1994)
The foothills loomed up here, too -- more lava formations, huge rocks balanced on top of each other and strewn along slopes that also bore catclaw, cholla, organ-pipe cactus abloom with pink and white and lavender flowers. ❋ Pronzini, Bill (1981)
Miller (1955a: 171) detected _L.l. mexicanus_ only once in catclaw scrub in the lower part of Boquillas wash at about 4600 feet in the ❋ Emil K. Urban (N/A)
Miller (1955a: 174) stated that the habitat of this species consisted of catclaw-covered bottom lands at the base of the Sierra del ❋ Emil K. Urban (N/A)
Miller (1955a: 171-172) reported this vireo as a summer resident in "the low catclaw-dominated scrub in the lower washes of Boquillas Canyon and its side valleys, at 4600 to 4800 feet" in the Sierra del Carmen. ❋ Emil K. Urban (N/A)
Miller (1955a: 168) reported that "this desert species followed the catclaw scrub up the washes to about 4800 feet, the limit of such habitat" in the Sierra del ❋ Emil K. Urban (N/A)
Over the prickly pear and catclaw brush we quickly made our way; ❋ Various (N/A)
He carried a peeled catclaw gad in his right hand, and with this gad he continually urged to a shuffling half-trot some one of the four burros. ❋ Unknown (1918)
