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I hike past a small patch of yellow flowers, which seem to be goldfields (the tiny ones) and tidy tips, the larger ones

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3489-yellow.jpg As I start hiking across the creosote-bush scrub, a fluffy winterfat bush (Krascheninnikovia lanata) catches my attentionThumbnailsI hitch up with an old road (now closed in a Wilderness area) and follow it toward Kelso PeakAs I start hiking across the creosote-bush scrub, a fluffy winterfat bush (Krascheninnikovia lanata) catches my attentionThumbnailsI hitch up with an old road (now closed in a Wilderness area) and follow it toward Kelso PeakAs I start hiking across the creosote-bush scrub, a fluffy winterfat bush (Krascheninnikovia lanata) catches my attentionThumbnailsI hitch up with an old road (now closed in a Wilderness area) and follow it toward Kelso PeakAs I start hiking across the creosote-bush scrub, a fluffy winterfat bush (Krascheninnikovia lanata) catches my attentionThumbnailsI hitch up with an old road (now closed in a Wilderness area) and follow it toward Kelso PeakAs I start hiking across the creosote-bush scrub, a fluffy winterfat bush (Krascheninnikovia lanata) catches my attentionThumbnailsI hitch up with an old road (now closed in a Wilderness area) and follow it toward Kelso Peak

A single fiddleneck stem rises on the left side of the photo. I didn't know that tidy tips and goldfields grow in the Mojave, so I'm not sure if my observation is correct.