Flowering Plants of the Kalahari Dunes

400 mm tall Acacia erioloba Acacia mellifera Acrotome Africa in sandy africana annual herb Aptosimum arid areas axillary bark Boophane Botswana branches bushman grass Stipagrostis calcrete capsule clayey soils clusters disc florets disturbed areas dry river beds dune valleys early summer egg-shaped Enneapogon Eragrostis erect Flowerheads flowers are borne Found in sandy fruit Geigeria gemsbok grazing grass green hairless hairs hairy inflorescence Kalahari dune veld Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park lance-shaped late summer leaf leaflets leaves Limeum linear lobes love grass margins Megaloprotachne Namibia narrowly Northern Cape Nossob River Occurring in sandy Occurring widespread throughout palatable panicle pans and dry perennial herb plant pods prostrate purple roadsides roots savanna Schmidtia seeds shrub shrublet slender southern Africa southwestern Kalahari species spikelets spines spring into summer stalk stems subsp succulent summer into autumn throughout southern Africa tips tree tufted grass whitish widespread in sandy widespread throughout southern wild woody yellow flowers