United States, California, Los Angeles, Liebre Mountains, Portal Ridge, open ridgeline about junction of Juday Truck Trail and Troedel Motorway, south of Troedel Spring.; Lake Hughes
34.6965556 -118.4625
T7N R15W S15 S 1/2 NW 1/4
1183 meters
3880ft.
Extensive area of open annual grassland on gentle terrain of ridgetop with steeper slopes having dense chaparral, and in more mesic situations, open woodland of pines. Soils well drained decomposed granite with scattered outcrops of granite boulders. Grassland with Bromus hordeaceus, Bromus tectorum, Avena fatua, Avena barbata, Amsinckia menziesii var. menziesii, Amsinckia tessellata, Eschscholzia californica, Corethrogyne filaginifolia. Surrounding steeper slopes with scrub of Quercus john-tuckeri, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Ceanothus cuneatus, Eriogonum fasciculatum, and Pinus sabiniana.
Succulent annual, flowers white to pale pinkish. Locally common in open grassland.