9 February 2019: 168 taxa in bloom now: alkali goldenbush annual desert milk-vetch annual stillingia Arizona lupine arrow-leaf Asian mustard Baja pectocarya bajada lupine bearded cryptantha beetle spurge big galleta Bigelow's monkeyflower blackbanded rabbitbrush bladderpod Booth's desert primrose Borrego milk-vetch boundary goldenbush bracted blazing star bristly langloisia brittlebush broad-leaf gilia brown-eyed primrose burroweed button encelia California barrel cactus California croton California fagonia California fish-hook cactus California mustard California suncup California trixis catclaw Cedros milk-vetch cheesebush chia chinch-weed chuckwalla pectocarya chuparosa climbing milkweed Colorado Desert marigold common phacelia Cooper's jewel-flower Coulter's lyrepod creosote bush curvenut combseed desert agave desert apricot desert calico desert chicory desert dandelion desert eucrypta desert five-spot desert holly desert lily desert lotus desert lupine desert mistletoe desert nemacladus desert pincushion desert plantain desert red maids desert star desert thornapple desert threadplant desert tobacco desert trumpet desert-lavender desert-thorn downy dalea dune primrose dwarf white milk-vetch Emory's indigo-bush Emory's rock-daisy Fremont box-thorn Fremont pincushion frost mat Gander's cryptantha ghost flower glandular nemacladus gray desert sunflower Guadalupe cryptantha hairy desert-sunflower hairy sand-verbena hairy stickleaf hairy-podded pepper-grass Harwood's milk-vetch heartleaf sun-cup heliotrope phacelia honey mesquite indigo bush jojoba little desert buckwheat little-flowered heliotrope phacelia London rocket long-fruit suncup longbeak streptanthella Mediterranean schismus Mojave cleomella Mojave ragwort mule fat narrow-leaf sun-cup narrow-leaved cryptantha narrowleaf ditaxis narrowleaf oligomeris New Mexico ditaxis Nuttall's poverty weed ocotillo Orcutt's woody-aster pale sun-cup Palmer's coldenia Parish's desert-thorn Parish's poppy Parish's viguiera Parry's marina pebble pincushion pedicellate phacelia pellitory Pima rhatany plicate coldenia puncture-vine purple-root cryptantha pygmy-cedar pygmy-weed rambling milkweed redstem filaree ribbed cryptantha rock crossosoma rock hibiscus rush milkweed Salton milk-vetch San Felipe dogweed sand plant Santa Rosa Mountain bearded cryptantha Schott's calico short-leaved baccharis shortpod mustard silky dalea six-weeks three-awn small-flowered poppy small-seeded spurge smoke tree solitary-leaved alkali goldenbush Sonoran spurge sow thistle Spanish needle spectacle-pod star gilia strigose lotus sweetbush Texas filaree thick-leaved ground cherry Thomas' buckwheat trailing four o'clock wedge-leaved draba western tansy-mustard wheelscale whispering bells white mallow white rhatany white tackstem white-stemmed blazing star white-stemmed milkweed wing-nut cryptantha winged cryptantha wire-lettuce wishbone plant yellow-head Yuma spurge 22 taxa that were in bloom previously, and may still be in bloom now: Abrams' prostrate spurge ayenia California acalypha California caltrop California matchweed Coves's cassia desert unicorn-plant fivewing spiderling fringed amaranth Gander's cholla long-stemmed buckwheat mat amaranth needle grama needle-leaved rabbitbrush odora sacred datura silver cholla six-weeks grama Thurber's sandpaper-plant thyme-leafed spurge Wright's buckwheat Wright's spiderling 20 taxa that might be in bloom now: Anderson's desert-thorn beavertail cactus brittle spineflower California buckwheat Cooper's box-thorn desert marigold desert twining snapdragon eastern glandular nemacladus flat-topped buckwheat linear-leaved stillingia lotebush Mormon tea purple mat sand cress slender tropidocarpum slender-lobed four o'clock turtleback white fiesta flower white-flowering currant wild canterbury bells