I spent a day in late September in the company of Jim Andre and Tasha LaDoux from the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center and some very knowledgeable people from the CNPS out in the New York Mountains region of the East Mojave National Preserve. Some seasonal rainfall had influenced the summer annuals and late-fall blooming plants of this area, and we were able to see some very interesting species, including the very rare Thorne's buckwheat, surprisingly in terrific bloom at the location photographed above. 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, and an asterisk is for a non-native species.

Noseburn Tragia ramosa Euphorbiaceae		Giant four o'clock Mirabilis multiflora var. pubescens Nyctaginaceae		Abert's sanvitalia Sanvitalia abertii Asteraceae

		Winter fat Krascheninnikovia lanata Chenopodiaceae
Rough menodora Menodora scabra Oleaceae

Ghostly rubber rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca Asteraceae

		Navajo fleabane Erigeron concinnus Asteraceae (40-60 ray flowers)
Spreading fleabane Erigeron divergens Asteraceae (75-150 ray flowers)

Goodding's verbena Verbena gooddingii Verbenaceae
		Palmer's buckwheat Eriogonum palmerianum Polygonaceae

Rattlesnake weed Chamaesyce albomarginata Euphorbiaceae

Small wirelettuce Stephanomeria exigua ssp. exigua Asteraceae

Desert portulaca Portulaca halimoides Portulacaceae (copiously long-hairy in the axils)

Many-flowered bahia Schkuhria multiflora var. multiflora Asteraceae

		Broom snakeweed (foreground) Sticky snakeweed (background)		Sticky snakeweed Gutierrezia microcephala Asteraceae Sticky snakeweed Gutierrezia microcephala Asteraceae
Broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae Asteraceae
Broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae Asteraceae

Narrow-leaved brickellbush Brickellia oblongifolia var. linifolia Asteraceae		Scrub lotus Lotus argyraeus var. multicaulis Fabaceae

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