[Desert Snapdragons and Ghost Flowers: The Genus Mohavea in the Mountains and Deserts of the American Southwest]

Ghost flower blooming t left in a sandy wash up Grapevine Canyon about a mile upstream from Telephone Cove, Lake Mead NRA.........February 27, 2013. Sand blazing star (Mentzelia involucrata) is similar but has narrower leaves with round-toothed to slightly pinnatifid leaves. The photo at right shows ghost flower in bloom on rocky hillsides to the northwest of the north end of Indian Head Ranch, north of Borrego Springs, CA.....March 29, 2010.

Ghost flower blooming on the sandy wash of Hawk Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park........March 24, 2011.

Ghost flower blooming at the mouth of a small canyon located at the northwest corner of the Indian Head Ranch to the north of Borrego Springs, California.........March 24, 2011.

A ghost flower in bloom at Hawk Canyon, Anza-Borrego State Park, CA.......March 20, 2005.