Natt N. Dodge

Contents

Hints for Flower Photographers

Introduction The Desert

Spring gives an Evening Party

1 Longleaf ephedra

2 Common reed

3 Prairie spiderwort

4 Desertlily

5 Mariposa

6 Golden mariposa

7 Desert mariposa

8 Soaptree yucca

9 Joshua-tree

10 Torrey yucca

11 Giant yucca

12 Sacahuista

13 Sotol

14 Agave

15 Parry agave

16 Lechuguilla

17 Canaigre

18 Trailing-four-o'clock

19 Sand-verbena

20 Mexican goldpoppy

21 Pricklepoppy

22 Evening-primrose

23 Spectaclepod

24 Bladderpod

25 Western-wallflower

26 False-mesquite

27 Catclaw-acacia

28 Mescat-acacia

29 Honey mesquite

30 Senna

31 Blue palo-verde

32 Bird-of-Paradise-flower

33 Lupine

34 Adonis lupine

35 Smoke-thorn

36 Dalea

37 Tesota

38 Woolly loco

39 Heron-bill

40 Creosotebush

41 Arizona-poppy

42 Desert-mallow

43 Five-stamen tamarisk

44 Yellow mentzelia

45 Rock-nettle

46 Night-blooming cereus

47 Saguaro

48 Organpipe cactus

49 Claretcup echinocereus

50 Strawberry echinocereus

51 Rainbow echinocereus

52 Yellow pitaya echinocereus

53 Barrel cactus

54 Fishhook cactus

55 Beavertail cactus

56 Engelmann pricklypear

57 Jumping cholla

58 Pencil cholla

59 Whipple cholla

60 Walkingstick cholla

61 Evening-primrose

62 Ocotillo

63 Field bind-weed

64 Santa Fe phlox

65 Starflower

66 Phacelia

67 Nama

68 Buffalobur

69 Silverleaf nightshade

70 Sacred datura

71 Tree tobacco

72 Ceniza

73 Desert beardtongue

74 Palmer penstemon

75 Paintbrush

76 Owl-clover

77 Desert-willow

78 Trumpet-bush

79 Louisiana broomrape

80 Coyote-melon

81 Snake-weed

82 Desertstar

83 Mohave aster

84 Fleabane

85 Broom baccharis

86 Desert zinnia

87 Brittle-bush

88 Silverleaf enceliopsis

89 Crown-beard

90 Douglas coreopsis

91 Paperflower

92 Desert baileya

93 Goldfields

94 Chaenactis

95 Douglas groundsel

96 New Mexico thistle

97 Desert dandelion

98 Malacothryx

99 White cupfruit

100 Prickly sowthistle

Suggestions for Additional Reading

Index

Transcriber's Notes

Photography & Text
Natt N. Dodge

SOUTHWESTERN MONUMENTS ASSOCIATION

Copyright 1963 by the Southwestern Monuments Association. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-13471
First Printing, 1963—20,000
Second Printing, 1965—20,000
Third Printing, (revised) 1967—20,000

Printed in the United States of America
W. A. Krueger Co., Tyler Div. · Phoenix, Arizona