Pygmy Poppy
Eschscholzia minutiflora
The yellow flower is the Pygmy Poppy. The white flowers are Cryptantha sp., another diminutive spring annual. Photographed in the Plomosa Mountains northeast of Quartzite, La Paz County, Arizona. Feb 2009.
FLOWERS: Four bright yellow petals on flowers barely
1 or 2 cm in diameter. Blooming Feb to April.
ANNUAL: Generally a small, delicate, spring annual rarely more than
15 cm tall.
LEAVES: Leaves are finely divided into linear segments. The leaves are
smooth and have whitish sheen.
RANGE: Western portions of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and ranging
into the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada. Rocky slopes, washes and flats
- spring appearance dependent on rainfall.
FRUIT: Dry capsules.
UNARMED.