Beautiful flower of native Mojave Aster (Xylorhiza tortifolia) in the Sunflower (Asteraceae) family, growing in the Alabama Hills desert at the base of Mount Whitney. The flower seems to glow with it's own light.
Several of these flowers had a pretty moth inside that seems to be sleeping. The flowers are closed at night. This one is just opening in the early morning sunlight, and I wonder if the moth spent the night curled up inside. (And maybe also that little "True Bug" (order Hemiptera next to the moth - see my [Previous] photo.) (Owens Valley, 20 April 2008)
Anyone else remember Robert Heinlein's classic book "Red Planet" where the boys survive the frigid Martian night inside the cabbage-like plant that closes up to protect them against the cold?
On April 24 2008
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