The desert is finally coming alive with beautiful flowers!  I love wildflowers.  They are everywhere here in the spring.  What you will see in this post are flowers that are blooming right now.  I took all these photos within the last week.  I apologize for the gross lack of scientific names, but it’s late, and I don’t want to look them up.

Slender Cryptantha, Yellow Cryptantha, and Yellow-eye Cryptantha:

1 Crescent Milkvetch, 2 Rimrock Milkvetches, and a Funnel Lily:

Common Paintbrush in habitat and up close, and 2 views of Western Peppergrass:

A TINY flower that I can’t identify, Dwarf Evening-Primrose, Pale Evening-Primrose, and the first of 5 Cisco Woodyaster:

4 more Cisco Woodyasters.  The last one was pink, and of the hundreds we saw today, this was the only pink one.  All others a lovely white.

3 Penstemon utahensis (the whole plant, up close, and in habitat), and one Desert Parsley:

2 Prairie Wild Onions, and 2 Rock-Cress:

A forest of Bottle Plants (AKA Desert Trumpets, AKA Eriogonum inflatum), a solo Bottle Plant (well, I guess it has a friend…), and a can in the midst of the forest for scale:

Yes, I know.  “Whew“, you’re saying. “That was a PLETHORA of photos“.  Enjoy your own area wildflowers!