slgwv's photos with the keyword: blossom

I think, but anyone who knows better please say so! Cercis occidentalis , by Lake Shasta, California. The inset is a close-up of the blossoms, on a different individual of the same species.

Pink Fuzzy Flower. ID, anyone? Off the trail to Triangle Lake in the Sierra Nevada, California. Map location is approximate.

A.k.a. greasewood. Larrea tridentata . Southern Nevada, near the tiny town of Moapa about 50 miles NNE of Las Vegas. This is a very typical shrub of the Mojave desert. In the adjacent pictures you can see how it tends to occur evenly spaced, almost as though deliberately planted, on an otherwise nearly barren desert surface. It blooms in the spring, as seen here. Here's the Wikipedia write-up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote_bush

Chamerion angustifolium . Next to an old juniper snag. Fireweed (per Wikipedia, called rosebay willowherb in Britain) is found thruout much of the Northern Hemisphere. These specimens are off the Pacific Crest Trail above Echo Lakes, Sierra Nevada, California. It's another important colonizer species; that's where it gets its common name in North America, because it's one of the first plants to seed after a wildfire.

Prunus andersonii. Native to western Nevada and adjacent California. It _is_ in the same genus as peaches, cherries, and almonds. It is a thornbush whose pink-to-red flowers (seen here) turn into a small fuzzy fruit. It's not particularly edible altho rodents and such eat it. It's obviously impossible to tell from a photo, but the blossoms also have a heavy sweet fragrance.

More Pink Flowers. In the Salt Wells basin, off US 50, Nevada, in some extremely dry terrain.

ID, anyone? They're in the drainage of San Juan Creek, Toiyabe Range, Nevada. Map location is approximate.