Natural History Wanderings

Anza- Borrego Desert Natural History Association has a wildflower report for the Mine Wash East Fork Loop  View Hike details here.

This is one of our favorite hikes: It has such a nice variety of different plants. It’s Emory’s rock-daisy, Perityle emoryi time, a lot of plants we noticed last month are now flowering. Not that much new in the wash, I expect again too much rain at once removed some previous germination.

We’ve been looking for Desert mistletoe, Phoradendron californicum female flowers for some time, and now we got a picture of it. But the bad thing is that the search is now over.

We hardly find fresh, fully yellow, blooming Arrow-leaf, Pleurocoronis pluriseta, this may just be bad luck. The Yellow-head, Trichoptilium incisum turned orange/red, I like it even better that way. Redstem filaree, Erodium cicutarium are now starting to grow bigger. This is also the loop of the Parry’s dalea, Marina parryi, with flowers that are easy to miss.

See photos at Anza-Borrego Desert Wildflowers Update