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Orange desert mallow flowers contrast with the greenery in this sometimes-wet drainage (but not today)

6782-taylor-spring.jpg Orange desert mallow flowers bloom out the side of reddish rock in upper Malpais Spring canyonThumbnailsQuite a few moths flutter about in the moist area around Malpais SpringOrange desert mallow flowers bloom out the side of reddish rock in upper Malpais Spring canyonThumbnailsQuite a few moths flutter about in the moist area around Malpais SpringOrange desert mallow flowers bloom out the side of reddish rock in upper Malpais Spring canyonThumbnailsQuite a few moths flutter about in the moist area around Malpais SpringOrange desert mallow flowers bloom out the side of reddish rock in upper Malpais Spring canyonThumbnailsQuite a few moths flutter about in the moist area around Malpais SpringOrange desert mallow flowers bloom out the side of reddish rock in upper Malpais Spring canyonThumbnailsQuite a few moths flutter about in the moist area around Malpais Spring

Another shrub I'm seeing frequently in this wash is dark-green Rhus trilobata (skunkbush).