Here are examples of some of the more prominent showy flowers in the foothills.
Hotrock penstemon
Penstemon deustus
Tufted or desert evening-primrose
Oenothera cespitosa
Pallid evening-primrose on Camel’s Back.
Oenothera pallida
foothill or panicled death-camas (Toxicoscordion paniculatum)
rigid or harvest fiddleneck (Amsinckia retrorsa)
Amsinckia retrorsa
Pale or white-stemmed evening primrose
Oenothera pallida
Tufted or desert evening-primrose
Oenothera cespitosa
Ballhead waterleaf, woolly-breeches
Hydrophyllum capitatum
upland larkspur (Delphinium nuttallianum)
western hawksbeard (Crepis occidentalis)
Crepis occidentalis
western hawksbeard (Crepis occidentalis)
Crepis occidentalis
Pale bastard toadflax
Comandra umbellata var. pallida
Hermit milkvetch
Astragalus eremiticus
Wild hyacinth
Triteleia grandiflora