Desert Plants, Shadows on Sand. Death Valley National Park, California. March 28, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Desert plants sprout after winter rains and cast shadows across Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley National Park.

As is all too often the case, I’m afraid that I cannot identify these plants! I found them along the fringe of the Mesquite Dunes (a.k.a. “Death Valley Dunes”) near Stovepipe Wells last spring. It had been a wet season and when I arrived there in late March plants were coming up everywhere, often in what seemed like the most unlikely places. This section of what might otherwise seem like barren sand was filled with rows of small plants that were sprouting quickly. The early morning light created an interesting pattern of long shadow.s

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