Joshua Tree in Bloom
You go for a blast of flowers and colors and stay for the details.
Near the Cottonwood region of Joshua Tree – purple chia and yellow desert sunflowers.
Desert start, also called “belly flowers” – at 1/2 cm width and about that tall, you have to get down to your belly to appreciate.
Purplemat
Desert Zinnia, perhaps?
Fremont Pincushion
Filaree
Desert Lupine
Chia
Teddy Bear Cholla bloom
Ocotillo
Claret cup hedgehog
Another hedgehog
Apricot mallow
Desert Canterbury Bells
Mojave Aster
Indian Paintbrush
Wild Heliotrope
Blazing star
Tackstem
Poppies
Yellow cups
Palmilla, a smaller yucca, also called soaptree
Locomotoring 
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