The desert star flower has become a bit of a… star here at the blog recently. It is one of the small flowers that you might easily overlook in Death Valley, but once you spot them they are abundant, poking up just above the ground, often in small groups. They are pretty flowers, but you have to get down close to the ground to appreciate them.
Big fields of wildflower color get the attention of visitors to Death Valley in a year like this, when earlier rains produced an impressive wildflower bloom. At the end of February we saw whole hillsides covered with desert gold and phacelia, and sand verbena covered the ground in some low places. But a closer look reveals a world of other small and inconspicuous flowers like the desert star.
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