Can You Identify this?

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    Ok this is fun. I love flora and fauna. Heres one more.
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    Oohhh...good one...got me stumped.

     
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    It grows in the desert, look close at the pedals, the name is in it.
     
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    Prickly pear?

     
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    Should I say or do you want to keep guessing?
     
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    Desert Violet?
    And I'm trying not to look on google or wiki
    no cheating now
     
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    desert is in the name, look close at the pedals, they all have something in common
     
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    By the way this is a passion, they are really cool.
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    They overlap, and they cup, theres five dots in the center, theres five petals...
    :?:
     
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    Yes, it is called a desert 5 spot.
     
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    Desert rose?
     
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    My neighbor has those passion flowers growning intoi my back yard. I don't mind because it attracts catipillars. In the spring and summer you should see the butterfly storms around that side of my house, its incredible. Plus the flowers are beautiful.
    Heres one from our backyard...
     

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    And a hybrid blackberry from our backyard...
     

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    Ok one last one, it grows in modjeska down by the stream and is edible. 75216896.hWLmaykC.030407_DSC1009_MinersLettuce.jpg
     
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    sdyeti? you got this one?
     
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    Have seen it but I don't know...

    Now if we were talking east coast plants, I'd probably be all over it :)

     
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    Ok, It is called Miners Lettuce. During the gold rush the miners used to eat it.
     
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    D'oh! I think I knew that one!

     
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    I used to go out with the ex on all her plant things, and help her in the lab at Cal State Fullerton, so I have been exposed to alot of plants in socal.
     

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