Some of the ocotillo showed red tips - both the flowers and fruit are bright red. Still lots of lupine patches though they are drying out. The bushy lupine tends to grow late in the poppy fields and crowd out the poppies. Very showy patches of blue phacelia in many places. One small patch of exquisite larkspur on a north facing slope.
Larkspur are deep royal blue and cluster along a two to three foot stem.
Many beautiful stands of scorpionweed, related to phacelia but a deep purple color. Huge fields of desert hyacinth in the low-lying fields on the north side of the mountain. Plenty of filaree still on the north slopes. Most beautiful were the numerous small carpets of owl clover. This flower features bright reddish purple petals.