Here are examples of some of the more prominent showy flowers in the foothills.

Hotrock penstemon
Penstemon deustus

tufted or desert evening-primrose (Oenothera caespitosa ssp. marginata)
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

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