Southern Utah, late April-early May, 2012

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Just for fun (as I haven't even identified most of the plants), here are some photos from a trip to southern Utah, between April 29 and May 5, 2012.

Wonderful desert scenery in the Price Canyon area, with Astragalus/Oxytropis and Lomatium(?) spp:

    

More scenery and sagebrush, Artemisia tridentata:

  

Physaria sp. growing in a shale bank:

    

Ephedra sp.; Yucca sp.; 

    

Scenery and petroglyphs (disgusting that some cretin would deface this with his/her pathetic scrawlings):

  

Shepherdia rotundifolia (x2); unknown Brassicaceae:

    

Near Price, Utah, many interesting Boraginaceae - Cryptantha crassisepala(?); dried skeleton of Eriogonum umbellatum:

    

Gorgeous Castilleja sp. and scenery:

    

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Lori S. (not verified)

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 5:33pm

Cacti and more petroglyphs (proving that cretins have been around since at least 1932 ;-) ):

      

Desert sights:

 

     

      

   

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Lori S. (not verified)

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 4:38pm

Skunkbush sumac (Rhus trifoliata):

A beautiful little natural rock garden:

  

Hymenoxys(?) sp., Mormon tea (Ephedra sp.) and scenery:

      

Oenothera caespitosa (x2); yellow miner's candle, Cryptantha flava (x2):

       

Astragalus sp.; Abronia argillosa(?) (x2):

       

 

 

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Lori S. (not verified)

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 5:05pm

View; Penstemon sp.; Opuntia sp.:

    

More amazing scenery!

  

Ipomopsis sp.; Erigeron sp.; Shepherdia rotundifolia:

    

Cliffrose, Purshia mexicana (x2):

    

Stunning beauty!

      

 

     

 

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Lori S. (not verified)

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 5:24pm

Yucca sp.; Castilleja; Rumex hymenosepalus(?); Oenothera pallida: 

      

Lygodesmia arizonica(?); no idea!; Cleome lutea; Gaillardia pinnatifida:

      

Beetle tracks; Lupinus; view:

    

      

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Richard T. Rodich

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 3:06pm

Very interesting how these plants must cope with the conditions.  One wonders how deep their roots really are, and how much of that is due to the changing sands.