California Dreaming Part II

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 I Simply just Love the American Desert 

What a most cool place, Joshua Tree National Park, just East of Los Angeles I had such a great time exploring the desert & hills of the Mojave Desert. Not too many animals to discover but lots of Flora abound from cool cacti to delicate colourful desert flowers. I had great fun climbing & discovering the rocky hills of this park & it was there I found the most interesting things.

Desert Canterbury Bells (Phacelia campanularia) Joshua Tree National Park, California, United States of America. Conservation Status: vulnerable (G3?) (NatureServe) Vulnerable. Endemic to southern California in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts at elevations less than 1600 m. (Baldwin et al. 2002).

Western Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana ssp. elegans) Joshua Tree National Park, California, United States of America.

Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii) Joshua Tree National Park, California, United States of America.

Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) Joshua Tree National Park, California, United States of America. Endemic in Mojave Desert, US: native and occurs nowhere else.



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