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Ephedra trifurca
Also called American Ephedra, Log-leaf Mormon Tea, Longleaf Ephedra, Mexican-tea, Mormon Tea, Longleaf Joint Fir, Longleaf Mormon Tea
Longleaf jointfir is a sprawling desert shrub, up to about 2 metres tall, with green jointed stems and small leaves. It is a native of the arid southwestern US and northwestern Mexico, and it needs full sun and very well-drained soil.
Ephedra trifurca is a species of Ephedra known by the common names longleaf jointfir and Mexican tea.
It is native to the states of Baja California, Chihuahua and Sonora in northwestern Mexico, and to California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas in the Southwestern United States. It is found in desert scrub plant communities, in the Chihuahuan Desert, Sonoran Desert, and Colorado Desert.
White Shrubby Horsetail · High-climbing jointfir · Clapweed · Rough jointfir · Ephedra boelckei · Ephedra breana · California jointfir · Ephedra chilensis · Cory's jointfir · Cutler's jointfir · Join · Arizona jointfir
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ephedra trifurca by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
