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Yellow tackstem Calycoseris parryi Asteraceae

Arrow-weed Pluchea sericea Asteraceae [Named for Noël-Antoine Pluche, 1688-1761]

Big galleta grass Hilairia rigida Poaceae [Named for Auguste François César Provençal de Saint-Hilaire, 1779–1853]
		Prickly lettuce * Lactuca serriola Asteraceae

		Green blister beetle cf. Lytta stygica Meloidae
Pulicaria * Pulicaria paludosa Asteraceae

Little gold poppy Eschscholzia minutiflora Papaveraceae

Caifornia-aster Corethrogyne filaginifolia Asteraceae

Desert-fir Peucephyllum schottii Asteraceae [Named for Arthur Carl Victor Schott, 1814-1875]

Desert bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis Bovidae

Limestone phacelia Phacelia affinis Hydrophyllaceae		Golden heads Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus var. sphaerocephalus Asteraceae		Ground pink Linanthus dianthiflorus Polemoniaceae

Anderson's thornbush Lycium andersonii Solanaceae [Named for Charles Lewis Anderson, 1827-1910]

Cqlifornia barrel cactus Ferocactus cylindraceus Cactaceae

Annual bur-sage Ambrosia acanthicarpa Asteraceae

		Desert woolstar Eriastrum eremicum ssp. eremicum Polemoniaceae
Schott's calico Loeseliastrum schottii Polemoniaceae

Smallflower notchleaf phacelia Phacelia crenulata var. minutiflora Hydrophyllaceae		Desert dicoria Dicoria canescens Asteraceae

Thomas' buckwheat Eriogonum thomasii Polygonaceae [Named for George Henry Thomas, 1816-1870]		Desert almond Prunus fasciculata var. fasciculata Rosaceae

Mojave-aster Xylorhiza tortifolia var. tortifolia Asteraceae
		Desert trumpet Eriogonum inflatum Polygonaceae

Paperbag bush Scutellaria mexicana Lamiaceae