Other recent blooms include a native grass called needle grama, brittle creosote, desert senna, Acton encelia or brittlebush, and big galleta grass. Some cactuses are blooming a second time.

On April 18, Dugway's NRO made a stand against the brown blanket by planting nearly 400 seedlings of native plants that were once commonplace: Galleta, Western Wheat Grass and Great Basin Wild Rye ...

In North America, other plants growing as hollow circles in arid environments include ephedra or Mormon tea, Ephedra viridis, and big galleta grass, Hilaria rigida. But this growth form is by no means ...