This was a trip to the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve. The Reserve contains 1,745 acres of low sandy hills situated along West Lancaster Road in an area called Antelope Buttes about 15 miles west of Lancaster. This is high desert, and the elevation there is between 2600' and 3000'. The Poppy Reserve was dedicated to the State of California in April, 1976. An upside-down V symbol next to the common name indicates a taxon that was new to me when I photographed it on this field trip.

Deltoid balsamroot ^
Balsamorhiza deltoidea
Asteraceae

Common linanthus
Linanthus parviflora
Polemoniaceae

Creamcups
Platystemon californicus
Papaveraceae

Common fiddleneck
Amsinckia intermedia
Boraginaceae
Named for Wilhelm Amsinck, 1752-1831]

Davis's pitted onion
Allium lacunosum var. davisiae
Liliaceae
[Named for Nancy Jane Davis, 1833-1921]

California poppy
Eschscholzia californica
Papaveraceae
[Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1793-1831]

Grape soda lupine
Lupinus excubitus
Fabaceae

Dobie pod
Tropidocarpum gracile
Brassicaceae

Douglas's milkvetch
Astragalus douglasii var. douglasii
Fabaceae
[Named for David Douglas, 1798-1834]

Pale primrose
Camissoniopsis pallida ssp. pallida
Onagraceae

Common goldfields
Lasthenia gracilis
Asteraceae

Purple owl's clover
Castilleja exserta ssp. exserta
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Domingo Castillejo Muñoz,1744-1793]

Yellow comet
Mentzelia affinis
Loasaceae
[Named for Christian Mentzel, 1622-1701]

Red maids
Calandrinia ciliata
Portulacaceae