RHH's photos with the keyword: ambigua

Photographed in Arizona in the area of Vermillion Cliffs.

Photographed at Warm Springs Camp in Death Valley National Park, this is the Desert Globemallow. Driving through Warm Springs Canyon we saw more wildflowers than anywhere else in the park (see insets).

This was one of the most beautiful wildflowers we saw in Death Valley National Park. We saw it first along the Scotty's Castle Road but would see it several more times in our trip through the park.

Many of the wildflowers in Death Valley are tiny. This one was not (see inset). We saw it first along the Scotty's Castle Road but would see it several more times in our trip through the park.

Stropharia ambigua means the "Questionable Stropharia" but why it would be called that I do not know. This example, like the other mushrooms I've been posting recently was photographed on a hike in Wallace Falls State Park last autumn. It is claimed that eaten it tastes like old leaves, but its fitness for consumption is questionable (and perhaps the reason for its name). Some list it as poisonous.