This was a solo trip to Joshua Tree and was more or less a follow-up to my previous visit there at the end of March. An upside-down V next to the common name indicates a taxon that was new to me when I photographed it on this field trip.

Desert senna Senna armata Fabaceae		Littleleaf rhatany Krameria erecta Krameriaceae [Named for Johann Georg Heinrich Kramer, 1684-1744

Ocotillo Fouquieria splendens var. splendens Fouquieriaceae [Named for French naturalist Pierre Éloi Fouquier, 1776-1850]

		Windmills Allionia incarnata Nyctaginaceae [Named for Carlo Ludovico Allioni, 1728-1804]
Bladder sage, Paperbag bush Salazaria mexicana Lamiaceae [Named for Jose Salazar Illrgui, 1823-1892]				Little gold poppy Eschscholzia minutiflora Asteraceae [Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1783-1831]
Sweetbush Bebbia juncea Asteraceae [Named for Michael Schuck Bebb, 1833-1895]				Parish's viguiera Bahiopsis parishii Asteraceae [Named for the Parish brothers

		Sandpaper plant Petalonyx thurberi Loasaceae [Named for Dr. George Thurber, 1821-1890
Cushion cryptantha Cryptantha circumscissa Boraginaceae

		Creosote bush Larrea tridentata Zygophyllaceae [Named for Juan Antonio Hernández Perez de Larrea, 1731-1803]
Desert milkweed Asclepias erosa Asclepiadaceae				Bladderpod Isomeris arborea Capparaceae

California indigo bush Psorothamnus arborescens var. simplicifolius Fabaceae

		Engelmann's hedgehog cactus Echinocereus engelmannii Cactaceae [Named for George Engelmann, 1809-1884]   Spiny hopsage Grayia spinosa Chenopodiaceae [Named for Asa Gray, 1810-1888]   Cooper's goldenbush Ericameria cooperi Asteraceae [Named for James Graham Cooper, 1830-1902]
Goldenheads Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus Asteraceae				Mojave cottonthorn Tetradymia stenolepis Asteraceae
Mojave-aster Xylorhiza tortifolia var. tortifolia Asteraceae				Hairy milkweed Sarcostemma hirtellum Asclepiadaceae

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