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The Broom snakeweed is perennial weeds common on rangelands. Sheep and cattle have been poisoned from eating snakeweed. The plant is most toxic during leaf formation and the early rapid growing period. The next plant is the Compass Barrel cactus, and it generally grows as a single stem. It will grow up to about ten feet tall and a foot in diameter. The spines are dense and usually reddish. The longest stem may get up to five inches long. They flower in late spring early summer, right after the winter rains. They are called Compass Barrel because of their barrel shape and because as they grow they learn towards the southwest to maximize the amount of sunlight they receive. The Apache Plume is an evergreen shrub, and a member of the Rose Family. It can grow us to six feet high. It also has numerous branched at the base. Its small grayish, downy leaves are divided into linear division, attached alternately on slender stems. They are about three fourths inches long and curved slightly downward.
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