



High Desert Memories - A Hometown Journal Commemorating Ridgecrest California |

The Desert in Bloom |
Page Two |


The Creosote bush more commonly the Greasewood |





Joshua Trees |
Yucca Bloom |

Cholla Blooms |

Cholla in Bloom |
Yucca |





Beavertail cactus |



Yuccas |
Mormon Tea |



The Desert Candle or commonly known as Squaw Cabbage |



Probably one of the most well known of all the desert plants is the
sage or sagebrush. It has been memorialized in song and poem and is common
thruout all the western desert regions |

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Trumpet plant |
Thistle Sage |
Barrel Cactus |
Jimson Weed |

Larkspur |

Desert Lilies |