Trees That Please Nursery has a great selection of little pricks for the xeric portion of your yard. Our little pricks, also known as cacti, are New Mexico natives and offer low water and low maintenance for the backyard gardener. Put them in the hottest part of your yard and watch them thrive. They also make great defensive perimeters, protecting windows or pathways from unwanted traffic. We propagate several varieties of Prickly-Pear, Cholla, Yucca, Agave, and Sotol. All produce flowers and some have edible fruit. Contact Trees That Please Nursery for our cacti (little pricks) list.
Goatheads ( Tribulus terrestris ) are native to Southern Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Goatheads are also called stickers, sticker weed, bullhead, devil’s weed, and puncturevine. Goatheads are easily recognized by their prostrate growth form, leaves with leaflets, yellow flowers, and stickers (Goatheads). If you miss’em visually then they will stab you painfully in the fingers as you work your garden, or stick to your clothing and shoes. Goatheads are the primary reason local bicyclists must get “thorn proof” tires for riding on area trails and streets. Goatheads have prostrate stems that radiate outward from one central point. Leaves are compound with smaller leaflets. Lemon yellow flowers form along the stems and fertilized flowers form fruits. Fruits consist of several attached structures called nutlets (Goatheads). Each nutlet is a single seed that becomes hard or woody when mature. Each seed has two sharp spines that easily pene...
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