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Death Valley Area Plants This section is devoted to sharing information about and pictures of desert plants found in the northern portion of the Mojave Desert: Searles Valley, Panamint Valley and the Death Valley area. Plants shown on these pages were found in either Death Valley, Searles Valley, Panamint Valley, or adjacent areas in eastern California or Nevada. There is somewhat of an emphasis on Searles Valley since blackturtle.us is located in Trona.
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Alpine Gold
Alpine Penstemon
Alpine Tansy
Amaranth
American Brooklime
Antelope Bush
Argus Blazing Star
Arrowscale
Arrow Weed
Aspen Onion
Barrel Cactus
Beadpod
Bear Poppy
Beavertail Cactus
Bedstraw
Bigelow Monkeyflower
Big Saltbush
Bindweed
Bird's-Foot Lotus
Bitterbrush
Bitterroot
Blackbush
Blazing Star (Small Flowered)
Blue Elderberry
Bottle-Washer
Box Thorn
Brewer Cliff Brake
Bridges Penstemon
Bristlecone Pine
Brittlebush
Broad-Flowered Gilia
Broad-Leaved Gilia
Brown-Eyed Evening Primrose
Buttercup
Buckskin Keckiella
Buckwheat (Panamint)
Bugseed
Burrobush
Bushy Cryptantha
Butterfly Bush
California Brickellia
California Buckwheat
California Walnut
Cardinal Flower
Catchfly
Cattail
Ceanothus
Celery
Cheesebush
Chia
Chocolate Drops
Cholla (Teddy-bear)
Cholla (Silver)
Cinder Gilia
Cliff Goldenbush
Cloak Fern
Clover
Columbine
Combbur
Common Dandelion
Compact Phlox
Copper Blazing Star
Coreopsis
Cotton-Top Cactus
Cottonwood
Coyote Melon
Cryptantha
Creosote
Cudweed
Curly Dock
Cushion Buckwheat
Cushion Cryptantha
Death Valley Goldeneye
Death Valley Sage
Death Valley Sandmat
Desert Almond
Desert Biscuitroot
Desert Calandrinia
Desert Calico
Desert Chicory
Desert Dandelion
Desert Five-Spot
Desert Gold
Desert Holly
Desert Hyacinth
Desert Mallow
Desert Marigold
Desert Milkweed
Desert Olive
Desert Parsley
Desert Paintbrush
Desert Peach
Desert Pincushion
Desert Plantain
Desert Princes Plume
Desert Puffball
Desert Rock-Pea
Desert Star
Desert Tobacco
Desert Tomato
Desert Trumpet
Desert Wild Grape
Desert Woolly Star
Devil's Lettuce
Dodder
Dusty Maidens
Dwarf Phacelia
Ephedra
Eremalche
Eucrypta
Eureka Valley Dune Grass
Evening-Primrose (California)
Evening-Primrose (Dune)
Evening-Primrose (Tufted)
Evening Snow
Fern Bush
Fiesta Flower
Fig Tree
Figwort
Filaree
Firecracker Penstemon
Fireweed
Fishhook Cactus
Flat-Topped Buckwheat
Flax
Fleabane Daisy
Four O'Clock
Fremont Phacelia
Gold Buttons
Goldenback Fern
Golden Carpet
Golden Evening Primrose
Golden Forget-Me-Not
Giant Four O'Clock
Granite Cryptantha
Granite Gilia
Gravel-Ghost
Ground Cherry
Heart-Leaf Twistflower
Heart-Leaved Primrose
Hedgehog Cactus
Hedge Nettle
Heermann Buckwheat
Heliotrope
Honeysweet
Hooker's Evening Primrose
Hopsage
Humble Lotus
Indian Tobacco
Indigo Bush
Inyo Bricklebush
Inyo Onion
Inyo Rock Cress
Jimson Weed
Joshua Tree
Juniper (California)
Keysia
King's Sandwort
Larkspur
Layne Milkvetch
Lesser Mohavea
Lichen
Lilac Sunbonnet
Limber Pine
Lip Fern
Loosestrife
Lupine
Mariposa Lily
Mesquite
Mexican Bladdersage
Milkvetch (Freckled)
Milkvetch (Newberry)
Miner's Lettuce
Mistletoe (Arceuthobium)
Mistletoe (Desert)
Mistletoe (Phoradendron)
Mohave Buckwheat
Mohave Groundsel
Mojave Aster
Mojave Pincushion
Mojave Prickly-Pear
Mojave Spurge
Mojave Stinkweed
Mojave Sun Cup
Mojave Thistle
Monkeyflower (Common Yellow)
Mono Penstemon
Mound Cactus
Mountain Dandelion
Mountain Mahogany
Mountain Maple
Mountain Spray
Mule Fat
Munz Mariposa
Napkinring
Narrowleaf Goldenbush
Narrow-Leaved Monardella
Narrow-Leaved Primrose
Nettle
Nevada Goldeneye
Nevada Goldenrod
Nevada Sunray
Nightshade
Nipple Cactus
Northern Linanthus
Notch-Leaf Phacelia
Nude Buckwheat
Old Man Cactus
Onyx Flower
Panamint Bird's-Beak
Panamint Daisy
Panamint Dudleya
Parrot's Feather
Panamint Parsley
Panamint Phacelia
Pima Rhatany
Peach Thorn
Penstemon (Palmer's)
Penstemon (Panamint)
Peppergrass
Phlox
Pickleweed
Pink Alumroot
Pinyon Brickellia
Pinyon Broomrape
Pinyon Forget-Me-Not
Pinyon Pine (Singleleaf)
Popcorn Flower
Poppy (Desert Gold)
Poppy (Little Gold)
Prickly Poppy
Prince's Plume (Panamint)
Pringle's Woolly Sunflower
Punctured Bract
Puncture Vine
Purple Mat
Purple Owl's Clover
Purple Sage
Purslane
Pussypaws
Pygmy Cedar
Rabbitbrush
Red Valerian
Redray Alpinegold
Reed
Ringstem
Rock Cress
Rock Daisy
Rock Goldenrod
Rock Midget
Rock Nettle
Rock Spiraea
Rosy Apricot Mallow
Rothrock's Nama
Russian Thistle
Sagebrush
Sand Blazing Star
Sandpaper Plant
Sand Verbena
Sand-Wash Groundsel
Sandwort
Scale Bud
Scarlet Gilia
Scarlet Locoweed
Scarlet Monkeyflower
Seepweed
Sego Lily
Shining Blazing Star
Shooting Star
Skunkbush
Sky Pilot
Snake's Head
Snowberry
Soda Straw
Southern Mountain Phacelia
Spearleaved Brickellia
Spectacle-Pod
Spiny-Herb
Stillingia
Stream Orchid
Streptanthella
Sulfur Flower
Sweetclover
Sweet Brickellia
Tamarisk
Tansy Mustard
Turpentine Broom
Thickstem Wild Cabbage
Threadstem Gilia
Tiquilia
Townsendia
Turtleback
Two-Leaved Bedstraw
Two-Seeded Milkvetch
Valentine Plant
Valley Willow
Varicolored Buckwheat
Venus Hair Fern
Vetch
Virginia Forget-Me-Not
Virgin's Bower
Wallflower
Water Cress
Wax Currant
Whiskbroom
Whitemargin Spurge
White Tack-Stem
White Tidy-Tips
Whispering Bells
Wild Rose
Willow Dock
Willow (Narrow-Leaved)
Winter Fat
Wire Lettuce
Wishbone Bush
Woolly Daisy
Woolly Milkweed
Yellow Eyes (Lupine)
Yellow Frocks
Yellow Peppergrass
Yellow Violet
Yerba Mansa
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Useful Desert Plant and Wildflower Books:
  • Baldwin et. al. The Jepson Desert Manual: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002.
  • Blackwell, Laird. Great Basin Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers of the High Deserts of Nevada, Utah, and Oregon. Falcon, Helena, 2006.
  • Blackwell, Laird. Wildflowers of the Eastern Sierra and Adjoining Mojave Desert and Great Basin. Lone Pine Publishing, Edmonton, 2002.
  • Bowers, Janice. Flowers and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tucson, 1999.
  • Bowers, Janice. Shrubs and Trees of the Southwest Deserts. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tucson, 1993.
  • DeDecker, Mary. Flora of the Northern Mojave Desert, California. California Native Plant Society, Riverside, 1984.
  • Ferris, Roxana. Death Valley Wildflowers. Chalfant Press, Inc., Bishop, 1981.
  • Larsen, Wes. A Field Folio of Indian and Pioneer Medicinal Plants. Third Mesa Publishing Co., Toquerville (Utah), 1996.
  • Jaeger, Edmund. Desert Wild Flowers. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1988.
  • MacKay, Pam. Mojave Desert Wildflowers. Falcon, Guilford, 2003.
  • Morhardt and Morhardt. California Desert Flowers. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004.
  • Munz, Philip. A California Flora, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1969.
  • Munz, Philip. Introduction to California Desert Wildflowers. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004.
  • Stewart, Jon Mark, Mojave Desert Wildflowers. Jon Stewart Photography, Albuquerque, 1998.
  • Taylor, Ronald J., Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary. Mountain Press Publishing, Missoula, 1992.

A pamphlet published by the Death Valley Natural History Association titled Wildflowers of Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert was also very useful.

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