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Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. The Monument exhibits an extraordinary collection of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including the organ pipe cactus, a... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. The Monument exhibits an extraordinary collection of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including the organ pipe cactus, a... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. The Monument exhibits an extraordinary collection of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including the organ pipe cactus, a... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. The Monument exhibits an extraordinary collection of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including the organ pipe cactus, a... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. The Monument exhibits an extraordinary collection of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including the organ pipe cactus, a... More

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. The Monument exhibits an extraordinary collection of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including the organ pipe cactus, a... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Fauna and Other Views at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. The Monument exhibits an extraordinary collection of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including the organ pipe cactus, a... More

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe and Other Cacti at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. Here, in this desert wilderness of plants and animals and dramatic mountains and plains scenery, you can drive a lone... More

Cactus Wren On A Chain Fruit Cholla

Cactus Wren On A Chain Fruit Cholla

By far the most hostile element in the sonoran desert, the cholla cactus will "jump" out and grab hold of anything too close. The cactus wren, arizona's state bird, uses this hostility to its advantage by build... More

natural phenomenon, Organ Pipe Cactus national monument

natural phenomenon, Organ Pipe Cactus national monument

One of the mysteries yet to be solved. Some columnar cactus, like this organ pipe, exhibit an odd growth pattern called "cristate". Though considered unusual, a sharp eye can spot christate saguaros and organ p... More

A couple of cactus standing next to each other. Saguaro desert plants cactus.

A couple of cactus standing next to each other. Saguaro desert plants ...

Two tall cactuses stand next to each other / Two tall saguaro cactus in a garden public domain stock photo.

A large cactus sitting in the middle of a desert. Saguaro cactus desert.

A large cactus sitting in the middle of a desert. Saguaro cactus deser...

A saguaro cactus stands tall in the desert / A large cactus stands in a field public domain stock photo.

A couple of cactus standing next to each other. Saguaro cactus desert.

A couple of cactus standing next to each other. Saguaro cactus desert.

A cactus in the sky / A cactus in the sky public domain stock photo.

A cactus plant with orange flowers in the desert. Desert plant

A cactus plant with orange flowers in the desert. Desert plant

A cactus with orange flowers growing in a desert landscape / A cactus plant with red flowers in a desert setting public domain stock photo.

A black and white photo of a cactus plant. Cactus sw black and white.

A black and white photo of a cactus plant. Cactus sw black and white.

A black and white photo of a saguaro cactus / A black and white image of a saguaro cactus / Public domain stock photo of a nature.

A close up of a cactus plant with pink flowers. Cholla cactus sonoran desert cactus.

A close up of a cactus plant with pink flowers. Cholla cactus sonoran ...

The cactus is a cactus with pink flowers / A close up of a pink cactus flower public domain stock photo.

Saguaro catci proliferate throughout the course at the We-Ko-Pa Golf Club in the Sonoran Desert outside Fort McDowell, Arizona. The club is part of a resort and conference center on Yavapai Indian nation lands northeast of Scottsdale

Saguaro catci proliferate throughout the course at the We-Ko-Pa Golf C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Saguaro catci proliferate throughout the course at the We-Ko-Pa Golf Club in the Sonoran Desert outside Fort McDowell, Arizona. The club is part of a resort and conference center on Yavapai Indian nation lands northeast of Scottsdale

Saguaro catci proliferate throughout the course at the We-Ko-Pa Golf C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The late-day sun shines through the arms of a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

The late-day sun shines through the arms of a saguaro cactus in the So...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sunset silhouettes a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

Sunset silhouettes a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More