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Posted by Mike G (207.200.116.201) on 01:41:26 04/20/06
In Reply to: BD #27 posted by Mike G
Just before getting in sight of the parking lot, I saw this type of yucca plant growing back behind some rocks. Earlier on the hike I saw a sign explaining this kind of plant, and it's a type of yucca but not of the yucca genus, as is the common yucca and the joshua tree. The sign said what genus it belongs to, but I can't remember the genus name, nor can I find it in a search. Anyway, the plant only gets a foot or so high, except when it blooms, like this one. The bloom shoots on up several feet, and is golden in color. The bloom looks like compact tiny flowers in dense arrangements, so small you can't make out the individual flowers very well. I guess after it blooms and and the bloom dies, the plant goes back to being only a foot tall til the next year it blooms.
This is the last picture of the Barker Dam hike. I tried going to another sight called the Wall Street Mill, which was a mill for processing ore from the Desert Queen Mine, but the trail I took headed into some thorny thickets, so I turned back to the parking lot. I found a better way, but I'll do that hike on my next day trip to JTNP.
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