Whiteoaks Photo Albums » Joshua Tree Spring Wildflowers 2008

Jane and I traveled through Joshua Tree on a beautiful Earth Day to photograh wildflowers.

Joshua Tree Visitor Center, off Twentynine Palms Highway...	Jane loads up on desert tortoises and a fluffy scorpion	Jane identifies wildflowers among the Joshua Trees. The...	Joshua trees among the famous JTNP rockpiles. The...
Joshua Tree (Yucca breviflora) spent blossoms make way...	Scale Bud, Anisocoma acaulis, and Desert Pincushion,...	Jane and Joshua Tree	Joshua Tree against the beautiful blue sky of the...
The Joshua Tree can be found in the Mojave Desert between...	Geologists believe the face of this modern landscape was...	Jane and Mojo's green Dodge "Astro" Caravan contrasts...	Beavertail Cactus, Opuntia basilaris, grow on alluvial...
Closeup of the blossoms on a Beavertail Cactus	Desert Star, Monoptilon belliodes, grows low to the...	Mojave Yucca, Yucca schidigera grows parkwide. This...	Here you can see the whole Mojave Yucca with dead,...
Beautiful rockpiles, with hardy Creosote Bush, Larrea...	Spiny Hop-sage, Grayia spinosa. The hop-sage is...	Desert Mallow, Sphaeralcea ambigua. found on open flats...	Fremont's Phacella, Phacelia fremontii. Yellow throats,...
More Desert Senna. The leaf axis remains as a spine after...	A lone Desert Star. Monoptilon bellioides.	A tiny Wallace's Eriophyllum, Eriophyllum wallacei. Low...	Boundary Mormon Tea, Ephedra californica. The genus...
Desert Dandelion, Malacothrix glabrata.	Silver Cholla, Opuntia echinocarpa	Another Beavertail Cactus with magenta blossoms	Mojave Mound Cactus, Echinocereus triglochidiatus.
Rock Goldenbush, Ericameria cuneata. Or Brittlebush,...	Rock climbers	Jimsonweed, Datura wrightii	Dune Primrose, Oenothera deltoides. White flower with 4...
Checker Fiddleneck, Amsinckia tessellata A. Gray. The...	Mojave Lupine, Lupinus odoratus There are over 200...	Mojave Lupine	Another Beavertail Cactus
Hedgehog Cactus, Echinocereus engelmannii	Fremont's Phacelia	Desert Mallow	IMG 8477
Blue Fremont's Phacelia and Fiddlenecks	Beavertail Cactus	White Desert Pincushion, Chaenactis fremontii and Blue...	More blue Fremont's Phacelia
Another blue Fremont's Phacelia, but note the cool beetle...	Jimsonweed, Datura wrightii	Bladder pod, Isomeris arborea	IMG 8487
Smoke Tree, Psorothamnus spinosus.	Silver (Golden) Cholla, Opuntia echinocarpa	Greenish-yellow flower of the Silver Cholla	Cholla Cactus Garden in Joshua Tree National Park .25...
Ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens	Ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens

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