Tidy Tips, Brittlebush, Blue Dicks, Desert Phlox

Wildflowers growing next to the trail, Upper Black Top Mesa Pass, on a March morning. Blue Dicks (AKA Purplehead) (Dipterostemon capitatus), Tidy Tips (Layia) — daisy like flower, Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) — flowers are yellow when not dried. The larger small white flowers are Desert Phlox (Phlox austromontana) — I have not identified the tiny white flowers sprinkled around. Tonto National Forest, Superstition Wilderness, Arizona

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