Photo: Acourtia nana 0.
Botanical name:
Flowering plant. This is the plant that leaves all those funny-looking dead hollyleaves sticking out of the ground, in the SW US. Chiricahuas, AZ, US. Wild. 1998-04-01.
Acourtia nana (Gray) Reveal & King
Engl.: desert holly, dwarf desertpeony.
Bot. syn.: Perezia nana Gray