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CJR Escalante Adventure 2005 – Bonus Flower Page

We’ve collected the good wildflower shots together on this page. Order of presentation is aesthetic. Enjoy!

Also: We don’t know the names of most of these flowers. If you can identify some of them, we would greatly appreciate it if you would let us know.

Prairie Spiderwort, Trandescantia occidentalis.

Photo by Bill Priedhorsky.
medium (191k), full size (1372k)

medium (171k), full size (399k)

Prarie spiderwort.

Photo by Bill Priedhorsky.
medium (79k), large (229k), full size (658k)

Desert paintbrush, Castilleja chromosa.

medium (125k), full size (376k)

Desert paintbrush.

medium (125k), full size (385k)

Claretcup cactus, Echinocereus triglochidiatus.

medium (169k), full size (421k)

Claretcup cactus.

medium (170k), full size (393k)

Sego lily, Calochortus nutallii.

medium (259k), full size (402k)

medium (156k), full size (389k)

An unusual multicolored prickly pear. These came in yellow, magenta, and sometimes red, but rarely in more than one color per plant.

Photo by Charles Yeamans.
medium (182k), large (460k), full size (689k)

Prickly pear.

medium (111k), full size (381k)

Photo by Charles Yeamans.
medium (259k), large (645k), full size (713k)

Fragrant sand verbena, Abronia fragrans.

medium (151k), full size (390k)

medium (168k), full size (383k)

White-stemmed evening primrose, Oenothera pallida.

medium (102k), full size (381k)

Sego lily with fly of genus Syphidae.

medium (119k), full size (371k)

Photo by Charles Yeamans.
medium (232k), large (601k), full size (703k)

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