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Loren Pechtel

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Tentative identification: California Poppy.

Found on the Dante's Ridge trail, Death Valley, California. (Note that this is about 6,000' above sea level, given the wind and our slow pace I never removed my windbreaker. It is not the hellish temperatures of the valley floor.)
 
That's a mariposa lily, genus calochorta. Bulbs are edible, and were popular in traditional cuisine and medicine.
 
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