Mexican Gold Poppy
The Mexican gold poppy is a desert-loving subspecies of the California gold poppy that is found across the American Southwest as well as Mexico, which is known for it's sweeping golden orange carpet of color across the desert after the winter rains. This one was seen near Sonoita Creek in Patagonia, Arizona on a hot spring afternoon.
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- 6000x4000 / 13.3MB
- Keywords
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Amopalo del Campo, Angiosperms, Arizona, California poppy, California sunlight, Californian poppy, E. Mexicana, E. californica, E. californica subsp. mexicana, Eschscholzia, Eschscholzia Mexicana, Eschscholzia californica, Eudicots, Mexican gold poppy, Papaveraceae, Patagonia, Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, Plantae, Ranunculales, Santa Cruz County, Sonoita Creek, annual, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, cup of gold, dicot, flora, flower, flowers, forb, fresh, gold, golden poppy, green, herb, native, natural, nature, orange, perennial, plant, plants, preserve, southwest, spring, wild, wildflower, wildflowers, yellow
- Contained in galleries
- Yellow Wildflowers, Papaveraceae (Poppies)
