UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0003988
UCR-BPS-75624
UCR-75624
Cryptantha microstachys (Greene ex A. Gray) Greene
Boraginaceae
A.C. Sanders
13846
1993-04-27
1993-4-27
O.F. Clarke, T. Krantz, R.F. Thorne
United States, California, San Bernardino, Arrowhead Hot Springs, c. 700 ft WSW of the old Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel, W side of the road to the hotel from Old Waterman Canyon Rd. and south of a dirt track which angles back toward the property entrance
34.18722 -117.265
T1N R4W sec11
595 meters (1952ft)
SE-facing slopes with hot springs; whole slope probably influenced by hot water seepage. Disturbed and with many naturalized exotics, including Arundo donax, Schinus molle, Phoenix canariensis, Washingtonia robusta, Eucalyptus, Bromus rubens, B. diandrus, Scirpus americanus, Eleocharis cf. parishii, Andropogon glomeratus (scarce), Salvia mellifera, Artemisia californica, Festuca myuros, Centaurea melitensis. Moist areas near springs with introduced woody species and marsh species; drier slopes dominated by annuals and native shrubs.
Flowering & Fruiting
Very locally common annual on the open sandy bottom of a small canyon. Observed only in this one spot; fls. white.