Desert FLOWERS

 Flowers along the trail, Wyoming to New Mexico.

Lupine (in September!)

Russian Thistles

Tribe Asterae

Hoary Tansyaster

Prickly Pear

Gardner’s Saltbush and Golden Bushes (Genus Ericameria)

Saltlover and Russian Thistle

Rocky Mountain penstemon and prairie sunflower

Greasewood and Scarlet Gilia

         

Field penny-cress and shrubby cinquefoil 

Alfalfa

New England aster and cinquefoil

 

   
    

Beardtongue and milkvetch

Club Cholla

Stinkweed

Fetid goosefoot

(For more flowers along the way, see: flowers of Alberta)

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