« 2023-04 Mojave Desert

April 12, 2023: Short Canyon, Sand Canyon, and Nine Mile Canyon (Kern & Inyo Counties, California)

Short Canyon

Five Fingers & wildflowers
Short Canyon Road
purple & white sand-blossoms
BLM Road SE125
wildflowers
BLM Road SE125
Owens Peak & Grapevine Canyon
Grapevine Canyon Road
showy gilia
BLM Road SE139
California spectacle-pod
BLM Road SE139
wildflowers & desert mountains
BLM Road SE139
wildflower-covered hills
Short Canyon Trailhead
distant phacelia
Short Canyon
wildflowers
Short Canyon
wildflowers
Short Canyon
Nevada gilia
Short Canyon
wildflowers
Short Canyon
desert-dandelions
Short Canyon
desert pincushion
Short Canyon
cream-cups
Short Canyon
Charlotte's phacelia
Short Canyon
naked buckwheat
Short Canyon
wildflowers
Short Canyon
narrow-leaf goldenbush, budding
Short Canyon
woolly sunflower
Short Canyon
pinpoint/graceful clover
Short Canyon
California buckwheat, budding
Short Canyon
caterpillar phacelia
Short Canyon
live-forever, budding
Short Canyon
ephedra (which?)
Short Canyon
dobie-pod
Short Canyon
bajada lupine
Short Canyon
chia sage
Short Canyon
cobwebby thistle
Short Canyon
small poppy
Short Canyon
desert paintbrush
Short Canyon
pale sun-cups
Short Canyon
purple sand-blossoms
Short Canyon
Bigelow's coreopsis
Short Canyon
Bishop's lotus
Short Canyon
silver bird's-foot trefoil
Short Canyon
San Bernardino sun-cups
Short Canyon
last year's desert baccharis flowers
Short Canyon
Joshua tree & wildflowers
Short Canyon
whispering bells
Short Canyon
Joshua trees
Short Canyon
bristly fiddleneck
Short Canyon
big-nose monkeyflower
Short Canyon
cryptantha
Short Canyon
Kern County larkspur
Short Canyon
Veatch's blazing-star (?)
Short Canyon
blue dicks
Short Canyon
giant nolina
Short Canyon
white fiesta-flower
Short Canyon
baby-blue-eyes
Short Canyon
tomcat clover & caterpillar phacelia
Short Canyon
fringe-pod
Short Canyon
narrow-leaf goldenbush
Short Canyon
wildflowers
Short Canyon
Nevada gilia
Short Canyon
miniature lupine
Short Canyon
Brewer's monkeyflower
Short Canyon
pale pink red-maids
Short Canyon
Short Canyon
Short Canyon
Short Canyon
Short Canyon
western side-blotched lizard
Short Canyon
wildflowers & Short Canyon
Short Canyon
bigfoot hybrid rock-cress
Short Canyon
beautiful rock-cress
Short Canyon
desert globe-mallow
Short Canyon
grape soda lupine (?)
Short Canyon
wildflowers
Short Canyon
common pussy-paws
Short Canyon
Clokey's gilia
Short Canyon
yellow-turban buckwheat
Short Canyon
Joshua tree flowers
Short Canyon
desert-dandelion
Short Canyon
evening-primrose
BLM Road SE143
peaks above Short Canyon
BLM Road SE143
purple-mat
BLM Road SE143
Mojave hole-in-the-sand plant
BLM Road SE143

Grapevine Canyon

Owens Peak & Grapevine Canyon
Grapevine Canyon Road
Grapevine Canyon
Grapevine Canyon
serpentine spring-beauty
Grapevine Canyon
desert blue-eyed-Mary
Grapevine Canyon
glaucous spring-beauty
Grapevine Canyon

Sand Canyon

brittlebush
U.S. Highway 395 Frontage Road
wildflower-covered hills
Sand Canyon Road
Spanish Needle (Peak 7841)
Sand Canyon
wildflowers
Sand Canyon
wildflower-covered hills
Sand Canyon
wildflower-covered hills (and Joshua trees)
Sand Canyon
big lupine (which?)
Sand Canyon
short California poppies
Sand Canyon
Fremont's phacelia
Sand Canyon
jimsonweed leaves
Sand Canyon
stream ford
Sand Canyon Road
unusually pale hairy sage
Sand Canyon Road
Coulter's lupine
Sand Canyon Road
desert-dandelions
Sand Canyon Road
woolly blue-star
Sand Canyon Road
wishbone-bush (desert four-o'-clock)
Sand Canyon Road
Acton brittlebush, budding
Sand Canyon Road
Wallace's woolly daisy
Sand Canyon Road
white bur-sage/burro-weed
Sand Canyon Road
wildflowers
BLM Road SE115
bajada lupine
BLM Road SE115
white tidy-tips
Sand Canyon Road
desert chicory & desert-dandelions
Sand Canyon Road

Nine Mile Canyon

Mojave sand-verbena
BLM Road LA1
white brown-eyed evening-primrose
BLM Road LA1
desert calico leaves
BLM Road LA1
Bigelow's coreopsis
Nine Mile Canyon Road
wildflowers
Nine Mile Canyon Road
Fremont's phacelia
Nine Mile Canyon Road
wildflowers
Nine Mile Canyon Road
Charlotte's phacelia & Bigelow's coreopsis
Nine Mile Canyon Road
Sawtooth Peak & Nine-Mile Canyon
Nine Mile Canyon Road
evening-snow
Nine Mile Canyon Road
view toward the Argus Range
Nine Mile Canyon Road
yellow Mojave desert parsley
Nine Mile Canyon Road
Bigelow's linanthus
Nine Mile Canyon Road
Nine Mile Canyon at sunset
Nine Mile Canyon Road
Sawtooth Peak at sunset
Nine Mile Canyon Road

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