Western Studio Film Sets, Tabernas Desert, Almeria, Spain

Flora and Fauna
The desert is surprisingly well endowed with vegetation for a desert. Plants such as the Sea Lavender (limonium insignis), which are teetering on the verge of extinction, manage to flourish in the semi-arid environment of the desert. In winter, the landscape of the desert turns white when the Toadflax Linaria (nigricans lange) flowers.
• Reptiles and amphibians
The reptilian population of the desert includes ladder snakes, spiny-footed lizards and ocellated lizards. Marsh frogs, natterjack toads and terrapins inhabit the moist areas of the desert.