Wildflower Cycles in the Sonoran Desert Spring
by Judy Kennedy
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Wildflower Cycles in the Sonoran Desert Spring
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Judy Kennedy
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Photograph - Photo
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When the Sonoran Desert of Arizona has had a lot of winter rain, a huge rainbow array of wildflowers appears in the spring. Prominent in this photograph is the White Woolly Daisy (Eriophyllum lanosum). The stems of these tiny flowers are soft, fuzzy, and crinkle up like wool, probably why the reason for their name. Anyway, the white gets good contrast up against the beiges and browns of the Sonoran Desert sands and rocks if standing alone. But in this photograph you can see the deterioration of other spring flowers around them, such as the Notch-Leaf Scorpion Weed. The dried up blue material around these gems are remnants of their purple petals. The coral colored material is dried up petals of the orange Desert Globemallow. Finally, the little splashes of yellow on the surrounding soil are just dried up leaves here and there. This photograph was taken on a very bright morning of this year’s Vernal Equinox (March 21, 2019) about 50 miles south of Phoenix.
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May 6th, 2019
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