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Udink said:
I covered a lot of ground last weekend and saw a handful of wildflowers. These are all from the third week in April 2012:

Unknown flowers, Rattlesnake Butte, San Rafael Desert
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Unknown, Cottonwood Wash, San Rafael Desert
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Unknown, rim of Cottonwood Wash, San Rafael Desert
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Top - Yellow Cryptantha or Golden Cryptantha (2 different species)
Middle - Milkweed (of some kind)
bottom - Purple Scorpionweed Phacelia crenulata
A good source: SWColorado Wildflowers: http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/Blue Purple Enlarged Photo Pages/phacelia.htm
 
They were just barely getting started in the Halls Creek area last weekend. Only a few of the claret cups and one or two Whipple's Fish Hook along our route. The rest were close. Should really start popping over the next couple of weeks. But I guess down in St. George it's been on for a while.
 
Nick said:
They were just barely getting started in the Halls Creek area last weekend. Only a few of the claret cups and one or two Whipple's Fish Hook along our route. The rest were close. Should really start popping over the next couple of weeks. But I guess down in St. George it's been on for a while.
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the blooming cacti are basically everywhere. Carpets of pink, lilac, purple, and red covered the whole area. I saw at least six different species of cacti in bloom last weekend in the Virgin River Gorge. Prickely Pears, Whipples Fishhook, different Hedgehogs,Claret Cup... this goes on and on.

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I need to get out this weekend again and look for more cacti
 
My favorite flower I hear has bloomed! The Bearclaw Poppy only found in one place in the whole world. Hope to get out there and take some pictures. Maybe Monday morning.
 
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