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A little further down Kelbaker Road, I stop again to look at a desert senna with dodder growing in it

3846-dodder.jpg I look across a patch of yellow desert senna flowers at the Mid Hills area in the distance, my destination todayThumbnailsAcross the lower, southeastern end of the Kelso Mountains are nice views to Kelso Dunes and the Granite Mountains beyondI look across a patch of yellow desert senna flowers at the Mid Hills area in the distance, my destination todayThumbnailsAcross the lower, southeastern end of the Kelso Mountains are nice views to Kelso Dunes and the Granite Mountains beyondI look across a patch of yellow desert senna flowers at the Mid Hills area in the distance, my destination todayThumbnailsAcross the lower, southeastern end of the Kelso Mountains are nice views to Kelso Dunes and the Granite Mountains beyondI look across a patch of yellow desert senna flowers at the Mid Hills area in the distance, my destination todayThumbnailsAcross the lower, southeastern end of the Kelso Mountains are nice views to Kelso Dunes and the Granite Mountains beyondI look across a patch of yellow desert senna flowers at the Mid Hills area in the distance, my destination todayThumbnailsAcross the lower, southeastern end of the Kelso Mountains are nice views to Kelso Dunes and the Granite Mountains beyond

Dodder is a parasitic plant that looks like a bunch of orange string tangled up on its host (it looks more yellow-brown than orange in this photo).