Help!!!! I need to identify this flower

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

01/28/2006 09:14:15 AM · #1

//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=286992

I'm doing a slide show in a week or so - and I would love to identify this flower.

Shot in Death Valley during last year's amazing bloom.

Thanks!

Here are a couple of other flowers that I would like to confirm their identity:

White Tackstem - Calycoseris wrightii //www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=287000

Yellow comet - Mentzelia affinis //www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=287002

Brittlebush - Encelia farinosa //www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=287003

Message edited by author 2006-01-28 10:38:52.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

01/28/2006 09:22:46 AM · #2

Size info would help. The image doesn't show enough context to give an idea of size.

Also, googling death valley and flora might help to identify it.

undieyatch

Olympus E-10

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

01/28/2006 09:28:02 AM · #3

Similar to soapwort am looking under that name. More size info?
Also some variations similar to this name - Caryophyllaceae.....

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yup..... linanthus family looks like the best clue.

Message edited by author 2006-01-28 10:38:50.

blazingmoonlight

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/28/2006 09:40:25 AM · #4

Notchleaf phacelia ?

grannyb

HP PhotoSmart 935

01/28/2006 09:45:09 AM · #5

Could be Mimulus - again, a description is needed.

blazingmoonlight

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/28/2006 09:59:47 AM · #6

or maybe Bristly Gilia ?

Apple iPhone

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Nikon

01/28/2006 10:16:18 AM · #7

any pictures of the plant with its leaves???

01/28/2006 10:23:47 AM · #8

Most of the flower shots I took were very tiny flowers - less than 1 inch in diameter. It is not a phacelia.

I think it may be in the linanthus family - but I have not found one just like mine. This one had an interior yellow center (petal color) but the stamens were blue not yellow.

I have looked in both a Mojave desert book and I have been searching the web using the flowers that were listed as blooming when we were there from Death Valley's daily news at the time we were there.

Here is a different view showing the interior of the bloom:
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=287007

sfalice

Canon PowerShot SX60 HS

01/28/2006 11:20:40 AM · #9

Originally posted by Mary Ann Melton:

It's always a pleasure to have an excuse to look at your flower pics, Mary Ann.

After wandering through my desert flower books, I too think it's probably in the linanthus family - and the book says the colors do vary quite abit...

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

01/28/2006 11:31:22 AM · #10

Thanks, Alice. I enjoyed strolling through your portfolio as well!

jrjr

Canon EOS-5D

01/28/2006 11:31:26 AM · #11

PM vtruan
He is a field biologist
--jrjr

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/28/2006 11:57:57 AM · #12

Originally posted by jrjr:

PM vtruan
He is a field biologist
--jrjr

Thanks for the info - I did just that!

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

01/28/2006 12:41:42 PM · #13

It may be Phacelia crenulata: it certainly looks like it to me, now that I've seen your second shot.

R.

Message edited by author 2006-01-28 12:44:07.

01/28/2006 01:09:14 PM · #14

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

It may be Phacelia crenulata: it certainly looks like it to me, now that I've seen your second shot.

R.

Thanks, Robert. This one has been a real pain to identify because I keep seeing flowers so similar to it, but not exactly. I've been all over the CalPhoto site trying to find that exact match.

I've seen phacelia - and the bloom structure seems different to me - here is one of my shots of notchleaf phacelia . . .
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=287064

I've been web surfing today - the lilanthus comes in a wide variety of colors. Mine seems to resemble linanthus more, except that all the shots I've seen have yellow pollen instead of the blue that is on the one I'm trying to identify. But the stamen and petal structure matches the linanthus best.