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 Beavertail Cactus Scarlet Milkvetch
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Hedge-hog cactus - (Echinocereus engelmanni) - Showy red/pink flowers. Currently blooming in the Inyo Mountain areas. |  Hedge hog cactus
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Scale bud - (Anisocoma acaulis) Similar to Desert Dandelion, Scale bud is somewhat shorter (2-8" tall) and has wide hairy leaves. |  Scale bud
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Desert five-spot - (Eremalche rotundifolia) Showy prostrate annual; flower petals forming a globe, petals pinkish with purple basal blotch. Currently blooming in the Inyo Mountain areas. |  Desert five-spot
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Desert Dandelion - (Malacothrix glabrata) Taller then Scale bud, the Desert Dandelion (4-16") has narrow smooth leaves. |  Desert dandelion
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Venus blazing star - (Menzelia nitens) Showy 5-petaled yellow/orange flower with many stamens. Abundant in Fish Slough. |  Venus blazing star en-masse
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Yellow tackstem - (Calycoseris parryi) Showy yellow ray flowers, lookk for tack-shaped glands on the upper stem and phyllaries. | 
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Purshii milk-vetch- (Astragalus purshii) Matted;; fuzzy leaves and fruit; bright pink/red flowers. Gravelly areas higher, common around Crowley lake Area |  Purshii milk-vetch
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| Indigo Bush - (Psorothamnus arborescens) |  Indigo Bush
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| Gillia species |  Gillia Species
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| Princes plume - (Stanleya ssp.) |  Princes plume
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| Bitterbrush - (Purshia tridentata) |  Bitterbrush
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Tidy tips (Layia glandulosa) - White flower with notched petals and yellow center. Fading but occasional throughout Owens Valley. |  Tidy Tips
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Desert pincushion (Chaenactis sp.) – White composite flower with all disk flowers, stems often reddish. Carpets of it in Fish Slough! |  Desert Pincusion
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| Mojave aster (Xylorhiza tortifolia) |  Mojave Aster
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Fiddleneck (Amsinckia tessellata) – Small yellow/orange flowers on a bristly, often coiled “fiddleneck” stem. | Fiddleneck
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Desert Paintbrush (Castilleja chromosa) – Showy red flower generally occurring in clumps – the color is actually from the bracts that surround the flower. |  Desert Paintbrush
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Yellow Throats (Phacelia fremontii) – Pink low-growing flowers with bright yellow throats and scalloped leaves. |  Yellow Throats
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White tack-stem (Calycoseris wrightii) - Similar looking to yellow tack-stem but with white flowers; could also be confused with desert chicory - look for glands. |
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Sand blossom (Linanthus parryae) - Lavender and white low-growing 5-petaled flowers |  Sand Blossoms
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| Evening snow - (Linanthus dichotomus) |  Evening snow
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| Yellow Peppergrass(Lepidium Flavum) – This plant is low growing with many small flowers, each with yellow petals just a few millimeters long and six stamens at the center. |  Yellow Peppergrass |
Desert Peach - (Prunus andersonii) Shrub; twigs become spiny; papery pinkish/reddish flowers with many sstamens. |  Desert peach
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Apricot mallow - (Sphaeralceo ambigua) Sub-shrub with showy orange bowl to globe-shaped flowers. Blooming at Fish Slough/Volcanic Tablelands. |  Apricot mallow
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Inyo-Mono yellow primrose - (Camisonia claviformis ssp. lancifolia) Blooming in Fish Slough/Volcanic Tablelands. |  Inyo-Mono yellow primrose
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Nevada lomatium - (Lomatium nevadense) Areas north of Bishop in open gravelly soils. |  Nevada lomatium
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| Lace-leaf phacelia - (Phacelia distans) |  Lace-leaf phacelia
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Cut-leaf thellypodium - (Thelypodium laciniatum) Similar overall look to desert plume and princes plume but with white flowers |  Cut-leaf thellypodium
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