Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Lycium pallidum Miers
(Pale Wolfberry)


Family: Solanaceae

Status: Native

Synonyms:
None

Lycium pallidum is a shrub with glaucous leaves and showy greenish-white flowers. The fruit is oval and orange red. Lycium pallidum grows in dry canyons and hillsides at lower to middle elevations.
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Lycium pallidum, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Saddlerock Canyon, May 5, 2007



Lycium pallidum, in fruit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Saddlerock Canyon, June 17, 2007


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