Salt Flats

There are really very few places in the desert Southwest that the conditions are ripe for the creation of salt flats, that is vast expanses of land covered by layers of salt. The media would have you believe that salt flats were devoid of vegetation, but you can see in between the salt, there are plants growing. Albeit they are not huge plants, they do grow and thrive in this impossibly toxic environment. It you haven't guessed by now, the white stuff all over the ground is crystallized salt. Let's just say you don't want to be in this area when it is really dry and the wind is blowing really hard.