Typical Plants

Nevada ephedra (Ephedra nevadensis)

Fremont pepperbush (Lepidium fremontii)

Goldenhead (Acamptopappus shockleyi)

Greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus)

Layne milkvetch (Astragalus layneae)

California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum)

Paperbag bush (Salazaria mexicana)

Shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia)

Four-wing saltbush (A. canescens)

Horsebush (Tetradymia spp.)

Indian rice grass (Achnatherum hymenoides)

Desert needlegrass (A. speciosum)

One-sided bluegrass (Poa secunda)

Cooper goldenbush (Ericameria cooperi)

Prince's plume (Stanleya pinnata)

Cheesebush (Hymenoclea salsola

Beavertail (Opuntia basilaris)

Silver cholla (O. echinocarpa)

Bursage (Ambrosia dumosa)

Creosote (Larrea tridentata)

Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia)

Winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata)

Indigo bush (Psorothamnus arborescens)

Wolfberry (Lycium andersonii)

Spiny menodora (Menodora spinescens)

Spiny hopsage (Grayia spinosa)

Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)

Budsage (Artemisia spinescens)

Cliff rose (Purshia mexicana)

Wildflowers of Sarcobatus Flat

Although not every year has a bloom, in April of 2008 we found quite a nice display after a fairly wet winter and spring.

Tall phacelias (Phacelia distans).

Desert dandelions (Malacothrix glabrata) fill the spaces between bushes.

Scale bud (Anisocoma acaulis)

Notch-leaf phacelia (Phacelia crenulata) growing up through greasewood.

Apricot mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua)

Broad-flowered gilia (Gilia cana)

Milkvetch (Astragalus sp.)

Walking along a parched desert flat, it is always amazing to come upon one of these splashes of color: Mojave fishhook cactus (Sclerocactus polyancistrus).

Mojave sand verbena (Abronia pogonantha)

Long-beaked twistflower (Streptanthella longirostris) growing on the egdes of a playa.

Budsage (Artemisia spinescens) flowering.

Mojave aster (Xylorhiza tortifolia)

Whte Pincushion flowers (Chaenactis sp.) sprinkle the slope of a rocky hill.

Desert dandelions.

Woolly daisies (Eriophyllum wallacei) on a sandy flat.

Delicate little jewels in the gravel: Rattlesnakeweed (Chamaesyce albomarginata).

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