My Everyday Photos

SW Trip part 10

2016 in Death Valley is predicted to be a year of a Super Bloom! We were there at the beginning when Desert Gold (geraea canescens) was beginning to carpet the low-lying areas of the park. We saw vast areas of the gold flowers off in the distance and along the road to Badwater Basin. By the time we stopped to look at them, the wind had come up and made flower photos very difficult! I did my best.

I found a few individual flowers of Desert Gold near the campground before the wind came up

I think this is brown-eyed evening primrose (camissonia claviformis)

I think this is notch-leaf phacelia although it could be another phacelia

Gravel ghost (atrichoseris platyphylla)

This is how they looked most of the time!