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Wildflowers Around Diamond Tail Ranch

There are at least 95 species of wildflowers on Diamond Tail. Many of these plants are silvery or wooly gray and are covered with tiny white hairs to reflect the sun. Six foot tall desert Sunflowers also sprout up here and there, dispersed by the birds. Scattered colonies of Scarlet Indian Paint Brush paint the landscape in pale green leaves and a flower which is a loud  orange red.  And everywhere can be found the Spreading Four-o’clocks growing four feet across and covered in hundreds of trumpet shaped purple flowers. Or watch for little mounded ground covers Desert Innocence and Early Easterdaisy with their cheerful pink and big white flowers.  There are plenty of wildflowers in this high desert!

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Baby Aster

Purple Aster

Low Growing Purple Aster

Tansy Aster

White Aster

Rocky Mountain Beeplant

Bitterweed

Blackfoot

Fendler Bladderpod

Oval-leaf Bladderpod

Indian Blanket Flower/Gaillardia

Many-Flowered Blazingstar

Blue Bowls

Brickellbush

James Buckwheat/ Antelope Sage

Roundleaf Buckwheat

Annual White Buckwheat

Annual White Buckwheat

Winged Buckwheat

Buffalo Gourd

California Poppy

Cattail

Clammy Weed

White Prairie Clover

White Prairie Clover

Cocklebur

Maroon Prairie Coneflower

Yellow Prairie Coneflower/Mexican Hat

Indian Tea/Cota

Desert Innocence

Doveweed/Croton

Doveweed/Croton

Early Easterdaisy

Hooker Evening Primrose

Red Stemmed Filaree

Blue Flax

Fleabane

Narrowleafed Four-O'clock

Spreading Four-O'clock

Small-Flowered Gaura

Trumpet Gilia

Narrowleaf Globemallow

Wrinkled Globemallow

Hairy Goldenaster

Annual Goldeneye

Rough Goldeneye

Goldenweed

Cutleaf Goldenweed

Mealy Goosefoot

Oak-Leafed Goosefoot

Narrow-Leafed Goosefoot

Greenleaf Five-Eyes

Ivy-Leafed Groundcherry

Virginia Groundcherry

Many-Headed Groundsel

Riddel's Groundsel

Threadleaf Groundsel

Curlycup Gumweed

Indian Hemp

Indian Hemp

Bow-Nut Cryptantha Hiddenflower

Horseweed


Scarlet Indian Paintbrush


Prostrate Knotweed

Wooly Locoweed

Wooly Locoweed

Desert Marigold

Missouri Milkvetch

Stinking Milkvetch

Astragalus/
Milkvetch Species

Dwarf Sand Milkweed

Longhorn Milkweed

Poison Milkweed

Juniper Mistletoe

Slim Leaf Purple Mustard

Tansy Mustard

Cutleaf Nightshade

Oxeye

Wooly Paperflower

Pennycress


Rocky Mountain Penstemon


Rocky Mountain Penstemon

Penstemon Species

Peppergrass

Buckhorn Plantain

Wooly Plantain

White Ragweed

Ragweed Sagebrush

Ragweed Sagebrush

Rushpea

Yellow Salsiy

Scorpionweed

Scrufpea

Scrufpea

Stiff Skeleton Plant

Dwarf Skyrocket

Prostrate Spurge

Thymeleaf Spurge

Cupseeded Stickweed

Annual Sunflower

Early Thelypodium

Wright's Thelypodium

Tumblemustard

Longbeak Twistflower

Prostrate Verbena

Pink Vervain

Western Wallflower

Trailing Windmills

Western Yarrow

Western Zinia
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