This hillside is always covered with a beautiful bloom of fiesta flower and Chinese houses in the spring
Pholistoma auritum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family which is known by the common name blue fiesta flower. It is native to California, southern Nevada, and Arizona, where it can be found in many types of habitat, from mountain talus to coastal bluffs to desert scrub. It is an annual herb with a brittle, fleshy, bristly stem branching profusely, sometimes forming a tangle. The leaves are deeply lobed and toothed and borne...
