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Also still blooming on the north side of Pinto Mountain are a few tufts of phlox

4195-phlox.jpg A few patches of verbena are still flowering in the semi-shady drainage as I rise up the back of Pinto MountainThumbnailsI'll keep hiking up to the top of the semi-barren slope, and then I should be at the top of Pinto MountainA few patches of verbena are still flowering in the semi-shady drainage as I rise up the back of Pinto MountainThumbnailsI'll keep hiking up to the top of the semi-barren slope, and then I should be at the top of Pinto MountainA few patches of verbena are still flowering in the semi-shady drainage as I rise up the back of Pinto MountainThumbnailsI'll keep hiking up to the top of the semi-barren slope, and then I should be at the top of Pinto MountainA few patches of verbena are still flowering in the semi-shady drainage as I rise up the back of Pinto MountainThumbnailsI'll keep hiking up to the top of the semi-barren slope, and then I should be at the top of Pinto MountainA few patches of verbena are still flowering in the semi-shady drainage as I rise up the back of Pinto MountainThumbnailsI'll keep hiking up to the top of the semi-barren slope, and then I should be at the top of Pinto Mountain

They seem to prefer the gravelly soil just above the drainage.