Spring in Tucson pics
Spring flowers in our yard in Tucson (taken today in the wind -- wind and macro lens, bad combination!)
Fairy duster (I think)
Mystery yellow bush (2 pics) --below
Bee bush (Aloysia?) -- above
Creosote-- below
Madly-blooming aloe
Damn it's hard to get the labels where you want them!
5 comments:
Beautiful! It is really neat to see what spring in the desert looks like!
The top pink one looks like a pentesmon.
Definitely some scroph. Besides Penstemon, there's also the genus Scrophularia.
Or maybe a mimulus (http://www.stauder.net/bildearkiv/Mimulus%20lewisii%205.jpg) but that's just because the other members of the family get overlooked. I'd put money on penstemon.
I think you guys are right. The plant looks a lot like Penstemon fendleri http://museum.utep.edu/chih/gardens/plants/NtoQ/penstemonfendleri.htm
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