[Maybe a knowledgeable Bucketeer can weigh in
on what the following particular desert plants are]:
Photos by Passionfruit Flower
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Hawk Canyon in Anza Borrego Desert State Park
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(The original* Passionfruit Flower* photographer here.
Thanks for all the positive comments.
The large green plants are, indeed, ocotillos. Red flower is an ocotillo flower bloom.
Flowers are blooming a few weeks earlier than normal due to recent heavy rains. Road to Hawk Canyon and Slot Canyon was surrounded by a large amount of ocotillo plants. Some branched out (like the one in the picture), while others had branches that grew vertically.
Surprisingly, the washes were not muddy, even though we had quite a bit of rain the week prior.)
Hawk Canyon is located in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
in the western Salton trough of Southern California.
The region is well known for its complexity and extensive
geologic record. Late Cenozoic faulting is common throughout the zone, mainly in the form of normal faulting and right-lateral strike-slip faulting (Figure 4, Table 1). Much of
the area is considered part of the San Andreas Fault system, which records the more recent fault displacements within a long-lived transtensional plate boundary. This system
delineates the boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate and isespecially seismically active as a result. The Pacific plate’s northern movement over the
past 25 to 30 million years has produced a complicated network of faults, mountain fronts and sedimentary basins.
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