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Orange desert mallow flowers contrast with the greenery in this sometimes-wet drainage (but not today)

6782-taylor-spring.jpg I start walking down the wash below Taylor Spring in a random route back to my campsite near Malpais SpringThumbnailsFoiled! I reach a barbed wire fence across the wash below Taylor SpringI start walking down the wash below Taylor Spring in a random route back to my campsite near Malpais SpringThumbnailsFoiled! I reach a barbed wire fence across the wash below Taylor SpringI start walking down the wash below Taylor Spring in a random route back to my campsite near Malpais SpringThumbnailsFoiled! I reach a barbed wire fence across the wash below Taylor SpringI start walking down the wash below Taylor Spring in a random route back to my campsite near Malpais SpringThumbnailsFoiled! I reach a barbed wire fence across the wash below Taylor SpringI start walking down the wash below Taylor Spring in a random route back to my campsite near Malpais SpringThumbnailsFoiled! I reach a barbed wire fence across the wash below Taylor Spring

Another shrub I'm seeing frequently in this wash is dark-green Rhus trilobata (skunkbush).