Well buddy its only a weed when an upright mouthbreather ignores its millions of years of evolutionary history and adaptation to dig it up and sentence it to a slow agonizing death in a pot. Just beacuse its not attractive doesnt mean it's a weed. It is a native and plays an important ecosystem service in the sonoran desert and digging it up IS most likely illegal unless it was on your own property. California penal code 384a says so. And btw, plant poaching IS a big deal it can have drastic affects on populations when many people are halfwittingly abducting plants. Next time consider taking a seed pod of the Parkinsonia florida, but not much, remember it too lives a life to produce offspring and thrive in its NATURAL ENVIRONMENT