Lasthenia gracilis (goldfields) ( )

Lasthenia chrysostoma

This low-growing, tiny-flowered annual has linear, opposite leaves and forms small clumps or large carpets after good winter rains. Its small yellow, terminal heads seldom reach six inches in height. Found on mesas and plains from 1, 500 to 4, 500 feet in elevation, goldfields can carpet sandy flats for weeks. They bloom as early as February 20 and as late as mid-April but peak in the middle of March. "Arizona Highways Presents Desert Wildflowers, 1988"