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Tufted Poppies
Tufted Poppy flowers close when the sun's not out; here, with the canyon's west wall blocking the late afternoon sun, you can see them in various stages of shutting up for the night. The bits of bluish purple mixed in with the poppies are Bird's Eye Gilia.