Rare plants include sticky false-asphodel, small white lady's slipper, northern gentian, plains reedgrass, blanket flower, and the endangered western prairie fringed orchid.
Date palms (near the oases), saltwort (used for making soda ash), spurge flax shrub, goosefoot, wormwood, and asphodel, "cyrenaica" are also reported in the wild.
I got to know the sprawling field edge the anchusa inhabited well, with its garland of cistus and convolvulus, ballota and euphorbia, fennel and rosemary, asphodel and helichrysum.
