- Flowers large, sunflower-like; lavender rays; yellow centers
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Mojave aster
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- Flowers not sunflower-like
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- Low tufted plants, less than 2 and 1/2 inches high
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- Flowers regular; all petals the same
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- Flowers lavender with darker spots
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Lilac sunbonnet
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- Flowers lavender withough spots
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Bristly langloisia
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- Flowers slightly irregular; not all petals the same
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Desert calico
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- Flowers red-purple; often forming mats
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Purple mat
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- Flowers dark blue, lavender, or white
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Linanthus
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- Plants more than 2 and 1/2 inches high
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- Flowers large, bell-shaped; up to 1 and 1/4 inches long
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Wild canterbury bell
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- Leaves or bracts under flower clusters prickly
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- Both leaves and bracts spiny; plant white woolly
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Thistle sage
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- Only bracts under flowers prickly
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- Flowers pale blue; leaves on main stem
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Eriastrum
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- Flowers dark blue; leaves only at the base
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Chia
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- Plants not spiny or prickly
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- Flowers in a coiled cluster like a fiddle
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Heliotrope phacelia
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- Flowers scattered on the stem
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Broad-flowered gilia
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- Flowers in a straight elongate cluster
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- Flowers irregular; like a pea flower
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Borrego milkvetch
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Arizona lupine
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- Flowers with a short spur or tail
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Desert larkspur
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