The Weekly Plant is written for residents of Academy Village. Started in March 2012, the goal of The Weekly Plant was to increase appreciation of the flora, and sometimes the fauna, found at The Academy Village and in the surrounding Rincon Valley. The articles include information on plant identification, wildlife value, ethnobotanical uses, and landscape use of The Weekly Plant.
Because it includes detailed information, you'll often find a link to The Weekly Plant in the description of plants on this website. If you would like to explore just The Weekly Plant articles, use the links below in the month-by-month listing. If you are looking for a specific plant, you'll find an alphabetical listing here.
The Weekly Plant by month of publication
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JANUARY
- Keeping Unwanted Plants Out of Your Yard
- Phenology - the Science of When Plants Bloom
- Sahara Mustard BOLO
- Warnock condalia
- Desert hackberry
FEBRUARY
MARCH
- Desert bluebells
- Arizona jewel flower
- Desert evening primrose
- Lupine
- Desert anemone
- Penstemon
- Mormon tea
- Fairy duster
- Bladderpod mustard
- Shindagger
- Locoweed
- Tree tobacco
- Feathery cassia
- Blue gilia
- Sweet acacia
- Autumn sage
- Plains flax
- Blue dicks
- Crested desert marigold
APRIL
MAY
- Littleleaf palo verde
- Catclaw acacia
- Whitethorn acacia
- Creosote
- Goodding verbena
- Malta star thistle
- Soaptree yucca
- Damianita
- Wirelettuce
- Desert ironwood
- Arizona rosewood
- Kidneywood
- Safflower
JUNE
- Purple three-awn
- Chaste tree
- Sotol, desert spoon
- Birds of paradise
- Night-blooming cactus
- Texas ebony
- Spinystar cactus
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
- Desert willow
- Trans-Pecos thimblehead
- Camphor weed
- Burroweed
- Fluffgrass
- Arizona poppy
- Ragweed
- Desert marigold and Bahia
- Apache plum and cliff rose
- Desert lavender
- Daleas
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
- Turpentine bush
- Texas ageratum
- Desert milkweed
- Golden dyssodia
- Desert honeysuckle
- Desert broom
- Australian acacias
DECEMBER