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Mojave Desert Annuals > Wildflower Photos WILDFLOWERS in the DESERT The extent and timing of spring wildflower blooms may vary greatly from one year to the next in the California deserts. Blooms are dependent upon many environmental factors, with winter precipitation and spring temperatures the key ones. In general, spring flowering begins as temperatures rise -- first at lower elevations in February and later at higher elevations in March and April. On mountain tops above 5,000 feet blooms are as late as June. Some believe that spectacular desert blooms occur on an average about once every twenty years and others say that an ideal year comes once every three or four decades. Most spring wildflowers in the desert are annuals. Strict germination requirements are a kind of insurance for the seed, keeping it from germinating when it isn't likely to survive to maturity. Three plants that seem to bloom even in poor years are the Bladderpod, Creosote Bush and the Jimson Weed or Datura. -- Common Name Scientific Name Family Fiddle Neck Amsincaia sp. Borage Red Stem Filaree Erodium cicutarium California Poppy Escholtzia californiaca Poppy Owl's Clover Castilleja exserta Figwort Davy Gilia Gilia latiflora ssp. Davyi Phlox Bigelow Coreopsis Coreopsis bigelovii Sunflower Blue Dicks Dichelostemma capitatum Cream Cups Platystemon californicus Poppy Desert Parsley Lomatium mohavense Lacy Phacelia Phacelia cryptantha Waterleaf Pygmy-Leaved Lupine Lupinus bicolor Pea Goldfields Lasthenia californica Sunflower Little White Forget-Me-Not Cryptantha sp. Borage Dune Primrose Oenothera deltoides Evening Primrose Heron's Bill Erodium circutarium Geranium Desert Hyacinth Brodiaea capitata Lily Weak Stem Mariposa Calochortus flexuosa Lily Red Mariposa Calochortus kennedyi Lily Desert Milkweed Asclepias erosa Milkweed Water Cress Rorippa sp. Mustard Golden Gilia Linanthus aureus Phlox Prickly Poppy Argemone sp. Poppy Miner's Lettuce Montia sp. Purslane Monkey Flower Mimulus sp. Snapdragon Fragrant Penstamen Penstamen palmeri Snapdragon Fremont's Pin Cushion Chaenactis fremontii Sunflower Wallace Daisy Eriophyllum wallacei Sunflower Desert Dandlion Malocothryx glabrata Sunflower Desert Chicory Rafinesquia californica Sunflower Purple Mat Nama demissum Waterleaf Canterbury Bells Phacelia campanularia Waterleaf

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