Springtime in the desert! Images from the Mojave Desert – Death Valley, Joshua Tree National Park, Anza-Borrego State Park, Mojave National Preserve… and more!
Desert Wildflowers
Sand Blazing Star
This image could be hanging on your wall!
Dune Evening Primrose
Pineapple Cactus flower, Joshua Tree National Park
Yucca Blossoms, Anza-Borrego State Park, CA
Ajo Lily
Desert Bouquet
Sand Verbena
Coreopsis and Phacelia
Superbloom in Joshua Tree
Owl’s Clover & Goldfields
A tapestry of wildflowers
Chuparosa
Brittlebush
Ocotillo
Owl’s Clover
Tidy Tips and Phacelia
Super-sized Canterbury Bell
Carrizo Plains National Monument
This could be you if you visit Carrizo Plain!
The bug is more beautful than the flower!
Butterfly on Sand Verbena
Bee on Indigo Bush
Yucca Bud and Manroot Flower, Plum Canyon
Joshua Tree Flower
Lupines
A flower with the resilience to overcome a hostile environment
I never saw so many Desert Five Spot, or such big plants!
Tidy Tips fill the frame in Carrizo Plain National Monument
Near Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
Anza Borrego State Park
Carrizo Plain National Monument
Mecca Road
Superbloom in Joshua Tree this past spring
Checkered Fiddleneck
Yucca flowers in Anza-Borrego
Globemallow
Gravel Ghost
Notch-Leaf Phacelia
Desert Five Spot (Erimalche rotundifolia)
Canterbury Bells
Goldfields
Turtleback
Rock Nettle
Coachwhip Canyon
Cholla and Phacelia
Broomrape
Cactus Blossoms
and Caltha Leaved Phacelia (Phacelia Calthiflora), to name a few!
Ajo Lily (Hesperocallis undulata)
Watch out for the Desert Tortoise!
Desert Dandelion (Malacothrix glabrata)
Lupine in Coachwhip Canyon
Early morning light in Joshua Tree
Anza Borrego State Park
Brittlebush
Canterbury Bells in Joshua Tree National Park
Goldenbush
Golden Evening Primrose (Camissonia brevipes), Notchleaf Phacelia (Phacelia crenulata), and Rock Daisies (Perityle emoryi)
There was a full-on superbloom in Joshua Tree this spring.
The ground was literally carpeted in places.
Very tall belly flower! Bigelow Mimulus
Lilac Sunbonnet
Purple Mat
Hawk Canyon
Desert Wildflowers crowd a landscape in Joshua Tree National Park
Sand Verbena and Dune Primrose
Pink
Notchleaf Phacelia (Phacelia crenulata)
Lupine on the Simmler Road
Death Valley east of Salsbury Pass, March 2017
Paintbrush
Gravel Ghost (Atrichoseris platyphylla)
Desert Paintbrush
Yucca Blossom
More desert wildflowers?
Sand Blazing Star
The view from my campsite
Wild Apricot
Camping at Carrizo Plains
Phacelia
Canterbury Bells
Better!
This vine is a new flower for me!
Butterfly on Brown Eyed Evening Primrose
Yucca Blossoms
Joshua Tree Flower
This lovely flower is over 10 feet tall!
Owl’s Clover
Owl’s Clover and Goldfields
Checkered Fiddleneck
Canterbury Bells
Desert Five-Spot
Sand Blazing Star
Sand Verbena
Turtleback
Beavertail Cactus
Goldfields
Fiddleneck
Brittlebush
Cracked Ground
Notchleaf Phacelia (Phacelia crenulata)
Broad Flowered Gilia
Globemallow
Desert Gold
Desert Globemallow
Backlit Ajo Lily
Spanish Needles
Dune Primrose
Desert Gold (Geraea canescens) & Telescope Peak
Costa’s Hummingbird( (Calypte Costae) on Pygmy Cedar (Peucephyllum schotti)
Lots of good tortoise munchies in this meadow!
Beavertail Cactus (Opuntia basilaris)
One of the first to bloom is brown-eyed evening primrose (Camissonia claviformis)
Ocotillo
Purple Mat
Ocotillo
Springtime in the desert.
Joshua Tree National Park