Honey mesquite Neltuma odorata Fabaceae

Death Valley phacelia Phacelia rotundifolia Hydrophyllaceae		Small-flowered eucrypta Eucrypta micrantha Hydrophyllaceae

		White fiesta flower Pholistoma membranaceum Hydrophyllaceae		Thistle sage Salvia carduacea Lamiaceae
Mojave sand verbena Abronia pogonantha Nyctaginaceae

		Blue sage Salvia dorrii var. dorrii Lamiaceae [Named for Clarendon Herbert Dorr, 1816-1887]
White mallow Eremalche exilis Malvaceae

		Fringed onion Allium fimbriatum var. fimbriatum Alliaceae		California tickseed Leptosyne californica Asteraceae Desert rock-nettle Eucnide urens Loasaceae
Cheesebush Ambrosia salsola var. salsola Asteraceae
Little gold poppy Eschscholzia minutiflora Papaveraceae [Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1793-1831]

Sticky snakeweed Gutierrezia microcephala Asteraceae

Shinyleaf sandpaper plant Petalonyx nitidus Loasaceae

Snakeshead Malacothrix coulteri Asteraceae [Named for Thomas Coulter, 1793-1843]

		Palmer's sun cup Tetrapteron palmeri Onagraceae [Named for Edward Palmer, 1829-1911]
Bright white Prenanthella exigua Asteraceae

Broad-flowered gilia Gilia latiflora ssp. latiflora Polemoniaceae

Bladderpod Peritoma arborea var. arborea Cleomaceae

		Cream cups Platystemon californicus Papaveraceae
Fremont's pincushion Chaenactis fremontii Asteraceae

Desert woolstar Eriastrum eremicum Polemoniaceae		Roundleaf oxytheca Oxytheca perfoliata Polygonaceae		Fremont's cottonwood Populus fremontii Salicaceae

Common hillside daisy Monolopia lanceolata Asteraceae

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