RSA - California Botanic Garden Herbarium (RSA:RSA)
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Vulpia microstachys var. ciliata (Beal) Lonard & Gould
Poaceae
Steve Boyd
9404A
1997-03-31
Lauren Raz
United States, California, Los Angeles, Liebre Mountains region: Knapp Ranch area at upper end of Castaic Creek drainage in broad alluvial valley at head of Cienaga Canyon, south of Liebre Mountain.
34.6871667 -118.6622778
T7N R17W S22 NE1/4
914-1158 meters
3000-3800ft.
Broad, gently sloping valley floor of deep alluvium, mostly of decomposed granite, steep slopes to east and west of old ranch compound mostly reddish metamorphics. Valley bottom with scrub of Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum, Chrysothamnus nauseosus, Ericameria linearifolia, and Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii; xeric slopes with scrub of Adenostoma fasciculatum, Eriogonum fasciculatum, and Ceanothus cuneatus, mesic slopes with more open scrub of Cercocarpus betuloides, Ericameria linearifolia, Quercus cf. john-tuckeri, Prunus ilicifolia, Rhamnus ilicifolia, Poa secunda.
Annual grass, locally common on sandy benches, drainage just to the east of the ranch compound.