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Riparian willow

Salix gooddingii · Salix laevigata · Goodding’s willow

True willows of desert springs and creeks. Not the pink-flowered desert willow already in this wiki.

Goodding’s willow beside water — Photo by Stickpen · CC0

In the basin

Goodding’s black willow and red willow (S. laevigata) — and sometimes coyote willow (S. exigua) — stand with Fremont cottonwood where water stays near the surface. The park lists Goodding willow as its own plant association. Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) is a wash catalpa relative, already written up separately. Do not merge the two. Wikipedia and Calflora have the Salix pages.

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Populus fremontii
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The big-leaf tree of real water — Big Morongo’s woodland, not a desert willow lookalike.
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A catalpa-family tree of the washes, and one of the few natives that towns here actually plant on purpose.
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The first basin town up the grade from Palm Springs: a Serrano spring, a cattle canyon, and now one of the desert’s great birding preserves.
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In the basin

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