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The sand blazing-star (Mentzelia involucrata) is a desert annual that can be common in the arid regions of southern California. They were abundant in Joshua Tree National Park in the springs of 2008 and especially 2012; these were growing near the Park's south entrance. Several of these flowers contain small bees. Sand blazing-star has a quite different flower -- pale and ghost-like -- compared to the showy yellow blazing-star (Mentzelia laevicaulis), from the Great Basin. |
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