Jack Dykinga / Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) and desert golds (Geraea canescens) carpet the sandy washes beneath the Calumet Mountains at dawn. Mojave Trail National Monument, Mojave Desert, Califo...

Jack Dykinga / Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) and desert golds (Geraea canescens) carpet the sandy washes beneath the Calumet Mountains, under the Milky Way. Mojave Trail National Monument, Mojave D...

Jeff Foott / Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) group in desert, Virgin Mountains, Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

Jeff Foott / Desert, Lake Mead, Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

Jack Dykinga / Eroded salt laden sandstone 'fins' in incredible sculpted forms comprise an area know as 'Little Finland.' Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada, USA. President Barack Obama designated the monument on...

Jack Dykinga / Eroded salt laden sandstone 'fins' in incredible sculpted forms comprise an area know as 'Little Finland.' Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada, USA. President Barack Obama designated the monument on...

Jack Dykinga / Eroded salt laden sandstone 'fins' in incredible sculpted forms comprise an area know as 'Little Finland.' Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada, USA. President Barack Obama designated the monument on...

Jack Dykinga / Desert landscape with flowering Sand verbena (Abronia), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), and Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides), with the Santa Rosa Mountains in background. Anza-Borrego...

Jack Dykinga / Desert landscape at sunset, with flowering Sand verbena (Abronia), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), and Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides), with the Santa Rosa Mountains in background. An...

Jack Dykinga / Desert landscape with flowering Sand verbena (Abronia), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), and Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides), with the Santa Rosa Mountains in background. Anza-Borrego...

Jack Dykinga / Desert landscape with flowering Sand verbena (Abronia), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), and Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides), with the Santa Rosa Mountains in background. Anza-Borrego...

Jack Dykinga / 1563786 - - Desert landscape with flowering Sand verbena (Abronia), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), and Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides), with the Santa Rosa Mountains in background. An...

Jack Dykinga / Desert landscape with flowering Sand verbena (Abronia), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), and Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides), with the Santa Rosa Mountains in background. Anza-Borrego...

Floris van Breugel / Dune primrose, Sand verbena, and Desert gold emerge from the sand after brief spring rains in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA March

Floris van Breugel / Dune primrose, Sand verbena, and Desert gold emerge from the sand after brief spring rains in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA March

Jack Dykinga / Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) and desert golds (Geraea canescens) carpet the sandy washes beneath the Calumet Mountains at dawn. Mojave Trail National Monument, Mojave Desert, Califo...

Jack Dykinga / Flowering desert lilies (Hesperocallis undulata) and desert golds (Geraea canescens) in the sandy flats beneath the Calumet Mountains. Mojave Trails National Monument, Mojave Desert, California, USA....

Jack Dykinga / Desert landscape with flowering Sand verbena (Abronia), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), and Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) Anza-Borrego State Park, California, USA. March 2017. These...

Floris van Breugel / Death valley covered in mass of flowers of Desert gold (Geraea canescens) after El Nino rains, Death Valley, California, USA, February 2016

Floris van Breugel / Flowers blooming in Death Valley including Phacelia (Phacelia crenulata), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), Rock daisies (Perityle emori), and Brown-eyed evening primrose (Camissonia claviformis) during...

MYN / Lily Kumpe / Desert Tree Frog (Litoria rubella) Plutonic Gold Mine, Meekatharra Shire, Gascoyne Bioregion, Western Australia. Meetyourneighbtous.net project

Floris van Breugel / Desert Gold (Geraea canescens) and Sand Verbena (Abronia villosa) flowering in Death Valley National Park, California. Only once every 3-8 years do the flowers put on such a spectacular spring show;...

John Cancalosi / Bingham canyon mine, one of the biggest open pit copper mines in the world. The pit can be seen from space. Also mined for gold, silver and molybdenum. Utah, USA, August 2010

Vincent Grafhorst / Kalahari in gold evening light, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana

Rob Tilley / Sand Verbena {Abronia latifolia} and Desert Gold {Geraea canescens} flowering in the desert, Amboy Crater, California, USA

Rob Tilley / Sand Verbena {Abronia latifolia} and Desert Gold {Geraea canescens} flowering in the desert, Amboy Crater, California, USA

Rolf Nussbaumer / Mexican Gold Poppy (Eschscholzia californica mexicana) flowering in spring, Tonto National Forest, Bartlett Lake , Arizona, USA, March

Rolf Nussbaumer / Mexican Gold Poppy (Eschscholzia californica mexicana) blooming in spring, Tonto National Forest, Bartlett Lake , Arizona, USA, March

Rolf Nussbaumer / Desert / Coulter's Lupine (Lupinus sparsiflorus) flowering amongst Mexican Gold Poppy (Eschscholzia californica mexicana) Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, USA, March 2008

Rolf Nussbaumer / Mexican Gold Poppy (Eschscholzia californica mexicana) and Desert Chicory (Rafinesquia neomexicana), blooming, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, USA, March

Rolf Nussbaumer / Teddy Bear Cholla Cactus (Cylindropuntia bigelovii) in field of Mexican Gold Poppy (Eschscholzia californica mexicana), Tonto National Forest, Bartlett Lake , Arizona, USA, March

Rolf Nussbaumer / Teddy Bear Cholla Cactus (Cylindropuntia bigelovii) in field of Mexican Gold Poppy (Eschscholzia californica mexicana), Tonto National Forest, Bartlett Lake, Arizona, USA, March

Doug Wechsler / Saguaro cactus standing above Owlclover, gold poppy and other annual wildflowers, Organ Pipe Cactus NM, Arizona, USA

Jeff Foott / Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) group in desert, Virgin Mountains, Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

Jeff Foott / Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) in desert, Virgin Mountains, Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

Jeff Foott / Sandstone formations and Virgin Mountains, Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

Jack Dykinga / Alluvial watercourse drying and cracking after winter El Nino rains with a trails of flowering Desert golds (Geraea canescens) at the base of the Amargosa Mountains, Death Valley National Park, Califo...

Jack Dykinga / Desert golds (Geraea canescens) flowering after El Nino rains among the basalt hillsides of the Black Mountains, Amargosa Range, Death Valley National Park, California, USA. January.

Jack Dykinga / Desert golds (Geraea canescens) flowering after El Nino rains among the basalt hillsides of the Black Mountains, Amargosa Range, Death Valley National Park, California, USA. January.

Jack Dykinga / Flowering Mexican gold poppies (Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana) around skeleton of dead Saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona March

Jack Dykinga / Mexican gold poppies (Eschscholzia californica mexicana) flowering in the desert with Cholla (Cylindropuntia sp.) and Saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea), Ironwood Forest National Monument, Sonoran Des...

Ugo Mellone / Saharan desert landscape, Erg Ouzina, Southern Morocco, Africa. December, 2009.

Jack Dykinga / Desert gold (Geraea canescens) flowers growing in the over-flow of the rain swollen Armargosa River, Dumont Hills,California, USA.

Jack Dykinga / Desert sunflower (Geraea canescens) flowering in Sonoran Desert following rain storm. Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA. March 2020.

Jack Dykinga / Eroded salt laden sandstone 'fins' in incredible sculpted forms comprise an area know as 'Little Finland.' Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada, USA. President Barack Obama designated the monument on...