A formidable flora lives on the city's limestone soil.

The limestone soil has low nutrient levels; hence smaller species of wild flowers and grasses are able to grow in the absence of larger species.

It prefers semi-arid limestone soils in areas free of frost the year round.

The species grows in rocky areas on limestone soils.

It grows in sunny locations in grasslands, on the edges of pinyon-juniper woodlands, on sandy or limestone soils.