Post by davesenesac on Jun 13, 2019 8:39:42 GMT -8
www.davidsenesac.com/2019_Trip_Chronicles/winter_2019-2.html
(from the above link)
...In the foreground are white skeletons of 2 brittlebush shrubs with a patch of dark purple hued chia, salvia columbariae, below right. Note how the now open bright poppies are much more prominent. The larger tree center frame is a blue palo verde, cercidium floridum, that do not have leaves but rather its trunk and branches are a grayish green with chlorophyll. They are more common within washes than other species and tend to have dense growths of annual species like white fiesta flowers below entangling their lower branches. The tree itself blooms full of yellow flowers in late spring. In the background are the granitoid Cottonwood Mountains that reach above 4k while my tripod is at 2k and the I10 freeway one mile plus south is at 1.4k.
Also
Mexican poppies, eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana,
Arizona lupine, lupinus arizonicus
brittlebush, encelia farinosa.
Mexican poppies, eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana,
Arizona lupine, lupinus arizonicus
brittlebush, encelia farinosa.