Atriplex hymenelytra, 12.22.25
Daily Flora
Tag: desert flora
Daily Flora
Opuntia basilaris (I), 3.27.16
Goodnight Flower
Desert Paintbrush (I), 4.2.19
Goodnight Flower
From Death Valley … a most wonderful place.
Encelia farinosa (II), 3.29.16
Goodnight Flower
I am not sure what this desert flower is. (Gravel Ghost? Desert Chicory? The pink is throwing me off!) I’m sure it’s obvious to some of you out there, so I’ll happily hear from you. Meanwhile I think I’ll just call it “Red Legs”. I don’t know if you can see why …
Red Legs, 3.30.16
Goodnight Flower
This isn’t a perfect shot of the Desert Five-Spot, but I wanted to at least show one with the inside showing so you could see … well … the five spots!
Desert Five-Spot, 3.30.16
One Small Bug
… and a flower, of course.
The reason this flower (Eremalche rotundifolia (A. Gray) E. Greene) is called the “desert five-spot” isn’t clear here, but when it opens there are five red spots inside. You can barely see a bit of red if you look closely at the opening.
Desert Five-Spot & Red-Legged Bug, 3.30.16
Goodnight Flower
I wasn’t sure this was an Atrichoseris platyphylla (gravel ghost), but looking online at a site called “The American Southwest” site that identifies flowers, I guess it is. (I knew some others I had shot were, but I didn’t know that it had the red center. If I’m wrong, which would mean that site is wrong as well, please do fill me in!)
Gravel Ghost (I), 3.30.16
Goodnight Flower
Yet another desert flower with which I will say goodnight. I noticed something funny when I was placing my left knee down on the ground: I clearly wasn’t the first to do that, and there was a rather comfortable indentation in the gravel where my knee fit perfectly!
I’m fairly certain this is a monkeyflower, and I’m thinking it might be Bigelow’s Monkeyflower.
Monkeyflower (I), 3.30.16
Goodnight Flower
This is, I believe, Hop-Sage (and I’m naming it that unless I hear otherwise) also known as Grayia spinosa, from the Goosefoot Family. These are actually bracts, I think, rather than actual flowers. But of course you knew all of that already!
Hop-Sage, 3.29.16