CORN SPRINGS ROAD/DESERT CENTER
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Sand blazing star
Mentzelia involucrata
Loasaceae

[Named for Christian Mentzel or Christianus Mentzelius, 1622-1701]
 
Pebble pincushion
Chaenactis carphoclinia var. carphoclinia
Asteraceae
 


 
Yellowheads
Trichoptilium incisum
Asteraceae

 
 
Small-seeded spurge
Chamaesyce polycarpa
Euphorbiaceae
 
 
Desert stars
Monoptilon bellioides
Asteraceae
 
Bigelow's monkeyflower
Mimulus bigelovii var. bigelovii
Scrophulariaceae
Windmills
Allionia incarnata
Nyctaginaceae

[Named for Carlo Ludovico Allioni, 1728-1804]
Slender threadplant +^
Nemacladus tenuis var. tenuis
Campanulaceae



   
Downy dalea
Dalea mollissima
Fabaceae

[Named for Samuel Dale, 1659-1739]
 
Silky dalea
Dalea mollis
Fabaceae
 


 
Gravel ghost, Parachute plant
Atrichoseris platyphylla
Asteraceae
 



 
 
Browneyes ^
Chylismia claviformis ssp. aurantiaca
Onagraceae
 
 
 
 
Notchleaf phacelia
Phacelia crenulata var. ambigua
Hydrophyllaceae
Purple mat
Nama demissum var. demissum
Hydrophyllaceae
 
 


 
Alkali phacelia ^
Phacelia neglecta
Hydrophyllaceae


 
 
Guadalupe cryptantha
Cryptantha maritima
Boraginaceae
 
Creosote bush
Larrea tridentata
Zygophyllaceae

[Named for Juan Antonio Hernández Perez de Larrea, 1731-1803]
Apricot mallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua var. ambigua
Malvaceae
 
   


 
Jones' linanthus +
Linanthus jonesii
Polemoniaceae

[Named for Marcus Eugene Jones, 1852-1934]


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