Wildflowers at White Sands National Park

 

My photographic attention in New Mexico went mostly to scenic geological features that I can’t find in central Texas. At White Sands National Park on October 11th that meant primarily the dunes, but I did photograph a few wildflowers there as well. Right outside the visitor center was a densely flowering bush that might have been a species of Chrysothamnus. I saw several aster plants flowering, including a fasciated one:

 

 

And there were some evening-primroses, Oenothera sp.

 

 

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