White Rhatany - Photos taken April 6, 2004 Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada. The pics could have been better but they do show how the flowers stack up to other examples as shown in the URLs below. These flowers have the right number of petals and at first glance appear to be right. The petals on this plant seem to be much more rounded in shape, fuller in size and not nearly as reflexed as the other examples. Notice the color of the flowers of this plant as opposed to the flowers shown in both URLs. Even the spelling of Rhatany - Ratany from one source to another is different. The source we used was the 'Mojave Desert Wildflowers' book by Jon Mark Stewart. The misses found this plant for me just outside the entrance to Mouse's Tank. http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/whiterhatany.html http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=KRGR
