Throughout most of the Mojave Desert, Wait A Minute Bush, known Botanically as Senegalia Greggii, finds a livable habitat. Plant communities in which the elevation approaches or exceeds 4000 feet, S. Greggii becomes more prolific where many of its lowland counterparts find the conditions less than ideal. In Joshua Tree National Park, it thrives over many in its endemic Little San Bernardino Mountains near Skull Rock.
Also commonly known as Catclaw, it generally, assumes a shrub like growth pattern, however ideal conditions will result in larger, tree like specimens over 15 feet tall. Branches are gray, and covered in small green leaves when mousture is readily available. During arid phases, it will shed many of its decidious foliage, readily revealing the small hooked thorns from which in its common names seem to be derived.
Inflorescences of yellow are bushy and somewhat cylindrical, a charachteristic shared by many organisms in the Legume Family, Fabaceae. Following flowering are pods which turn shades of brown as they ripen still attached. A detailed observation will occasionally reveal tiny holes in the pods, an idication that insect herbivory is has occured, generally rendering the afflicted seeds inert.
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