• Double O Arch

    Arches

    National Park Utah

August Flowers Page 4


CAPPARACEAE
(Caper Family)
Cleome lutea

YELLOW BEEPLANT

 


CHENOPODIACEAE
(Goosefoot Family)
Atriplex canescens

FOUR-WING SALTBUSH

 
Atriplex canescens
    


CHENOPODIACEAE
(Goosefoot Family)
Salsola tragus

RUSSIAN-THISTLE

 


CHENOPODIACEAE
(Goosefoot Family)
Sarcobatus vermiculatus

GREASEWOOD

 


CONVOLVULACEAE
(Convolvulus Family)
Convolvulus arvensis

BINDWEED

 
Convolvulus arvensis
    


FABACEAE
(Pea Family)
Melilotus officinalis

YELLOW SWEET-CLOVER

 


GENTIANACEAE
(Gentian Family)
Swertia utahensis

UTAH SWERTIA

 


GERANIACEAE
(Geranium Family)
Erodium cicutarium

STORKSBILL

 
Erodium cicutarium
    


LAMIACEAE
(Mint Family)
Poliomintha incana

ROSEMARY MINT

 

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Did You Know?

Ed Abbey

Edward Abbey worked as a seasonal park ranger at Arches in the late 1950s. His 1968 memoir of this experience, "Desert Solitaire," has become a classic of desert literature.