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SOTOL

SOTOL

Sotol (Dasylirion wheeleri) has a basal rosette of narrow leaves, up to 1 metre long, with toothed margins. It sends up a flowering stalk which bears thousands of tiny greenish-white flowers. These stalks persist, as shown in the image below, like markers to indicate the positions of the plants.


Landscape of sotols in desert grassland community with prickly pear cacti and agaves, Big Bend National Monument, Texas.


Close-up of sotol leaves with toothed margins

Flowering spikes of sotol, Big Bend, April 2001

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