All About The Sonoran Desert

All About The Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert is very hot and very dry. For most of the year, it does not get any rain. Yet many plants and animals live in this desert.

Plants of the Desert This tall plant is a cactus. The cactus can live here because it stores water in a special way. When it rains, the cactus roots soak up water. The plant swells up and gets bigger. The cactus uses the water until it rains again.

This small plant is a cactus, too. When the cactus is little, it grows in the shade of a taller plant. A plant that helps a cactus grow is called a nurse plant!

The cactus has very long spines. The spines help shade the plant from the hot sun.

This desert plant has no leaves. The plant dropped its leaves to save water.