| 1. After the record rainfall of January 1995 (2.59 inches for the month, the wettest month in recorded Death Valley history), desert gold (Geraea canescens) carpeted the previously mostly bare alluvial fans of the Funeral and Black Mountains. 2. Desert Fivespot (Eremalche rotundifolia), a plant endemic to the Mojave Desert, with some purple Phaecelia, alongside Highway 190 near the Ryan and Dante's View turnoff. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) blooms. The Native Americans considered the creosote bush the "medicine chest of the desert" and used its various parts to treat a variety of ailments. I've used a tea made from the leaves and twigs to successfully cure sore throats within 36 hours several times. 8. Death Valley Mohavea (Mohavea breviflora). I found these tiny flowers in the loose gravel of "younger" washes near Furnace Creek. 9. Desert Dandelion (Malacothrix glabrata). I believe this was photographed in a gully on one of the uplifted formations on the alluvial fans near Furnace Creek. 10. Golden Evening Primrose (Camissonia brevipes). These plants were fairly common lower down on the alluvial fans. 11. Panamint Princeplume (Stanleya elata). I found these growing in Emigrant Wash. 12. Yelloweye Lupine (Lupinus flavoculatus). I found these in the Harrisburg Flats area. 13. Mojave Aster (Xylorhiza tortifolia). These were occasionally found in gullies on the uplifted formations on the alluvial fans of the Funeral Mountains. 14. Desert Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja chromosa). These were fairly common in the Harrisburg Flats area. |
