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Feb 2, 2012 Lynette reports: Wildflowers in the Yuma and Ajo, Az area.

 

 

Jan 31, 2012 Pamela reports: These photos were taken Jan. 30, 2012 near Lake Powell (between Hwy. 40 and Hwy. 95, took the scenic route to Bullhead City). Not sure what the purple blue flowers are. I think the white ones are Dune Evening Primrose but not positive. The third photo is Lupine, might be Mohave Lupine. We are from Oregon but love to see native wildflowers where ever we travel.

Sand Verbena

Dune Evening Primrose

Desert Lupine

Jan 30, 2012 Andy and Ruth report: hese wildflowers pictures were taken in the Golden Shores AZ area on Jan. 19 2012

 

Jan 25, 2012 Andy and Ruth report: these were taken on Jan.15 2012 in Kingman AZ

Jan 23, 2012 DUSA reports: Raining in the northern part of Arizona, near lake Mead and the Colorado river.

June 7, 2011Paul reports: deep blue lupines, New Mexico raspberry, seep monkeyflower and New Mexico locust are blooming along "the Swift Trail" (Arizona Rt. 366) up Mt. Graham this week. Its among the most scenic drives in Arizona -- but make sure to call before you drive up, we heard the Coronado National Forest district may restrict access to Mt. Graham due to heightened fire danger in the wake of the two massive wildfires raging elsewhere. If you are able to visit this week (or when fire restrictions are lifted) watch the roadsides for color -- there's even a patch of rare white lupines about 10 or 15 minutes uphill past the Twilight campground. Hike any of the excellent canyon trails downhill from the top of the range and you'll find columbine and osha, wild strawberries, thickets with robust raspberry bushes with big, white flowers -- and claret cup cactus blossoms (Echinocereus triglochidiatus) up at the top; we photographed a few nice ones along the trail into Moonshine Canyon.

This is a great time of year for birding at Mt. Graham, too; Red-faced Warblers are plentiful this month (and vocal), and we've seen MacGillvray's and Yellow-rumped, Greater Pewee and also Western Wood Pewee, more Black-headed Grosbeaks than I can count -- and Hepatic Tanager, Zone-tailed Hawk and more. Not many butterflies yet; expect those numbers to increase as flowers are thicker in July and August.

May 25, 2011 Rick and Margarita report: May 21-22 we traveled from Las Vegas to Toroweep (some call it Tuweep) on the north side of Grand Canyon NP in extreme NW Arizona. From the canyon rim you can look straight down 3000 ft. to the Colorado river. About a 2 hour drive over 60 miles of dirt washboard road from Colorado City, AZ or Pipe Springs NM. There is a wide variety of wildflowers blooming "scattered" all over especially globemallow. Besides globemallow, we saw Indian Paintbrush, Lupine, several types of cactus, Desert Primrose, a variety of flox type flowers, yellow paper flower, Sego Lily, Princes Plume and several others I don't know of their names.

 

We have an online wildflower field guide that is designed to help you identify desert wildflowers by color, scientific name, region and common name. The pictures are sized to work on the iPod, iPhone. iPad and similar devices. With your iPod or phone you will easily be able to identify wildflowers while in the desert. Links for downloads are on the bottom of the Wildflower Field Guide page.

Photos tips: Most digital point-and-shoot cameras have a macro function - usually symbolized by the icon of a little flower. When you turn on that function, you allow your camera to get closer to the subject, looking into a flower for example. Or getting up close and personal with a bug. More on desert photography and wildflowers photos.

 

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