MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE APRIL 2015
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Desert marigold
Baileya multiradiata
Asteraceae
[Named after American microscopist Jacob Whitman Bailey, 1811-1857]


 
Large-flowered pincushion
Chaenactis macrantha
Asteraceae


 
 
 

Blackbrush
Coleogyne ramosissima
Rosaceae

[Bottom: what it looks like most of the time

 
 
 



 
 
 
Fanleaf crinklemat
Tiquilia plicata
Boraginaceae

 
 



   
Rose heath
Chaetopappa ericoides
Asteraceae



   
Turpentine-broom
Thamnosma montana
Rutaceae


 
Spiny menodora
Menodora spinescens var. spinescens
Oleaceae



   
Desert spinystar
Coryphantha chlorantha
Cactaceae
 
Western blue flax
Linum lewisii var. lewisii
Linaceae


 
Stansbury phlox
Phlox stansburyi ssp. stansburyi
Polemoniaceae

[Named for topographical engineer Howard Stansbury, 1806-1863]


Desert indian paintbrush
Castilleja chromosa
Orobanchaceae
 
 
     
Basin butterweed
Packera multilobata
Asteraceae

[Named after botanist John G. Packer, 1929- ]


   
Minthorn's milkvetch
Astragalus minthorniae var. villosa
Fabaceae
[Named for Maud Aileen Minthorn, 1883-1966]



 
Goodding's verbena
Verbena gooddingii
Verbenaceae

[Named for botanist and collector Leslie Newton Goodding, 1880-1967]
 
 
 
Utah agave
Agave utahensis
Agavaceae


   
Mat cholla, Horse tripper
Grusonia parishii
Cactaceae

[Picture on right taken on another trip in the East Mojave]



   
Slender cryptantha ^
Cryptantha gracilis
Boraginaceae
Mojave mound cactus
Echinocereus mojavensis
Cactaceae


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