United States, California, Riverside, NE-facing slopes of Mt. San Jacinto, Tramway Road in vicinity of road summit, Chino Canyon, c. 3.8 mi west of CA Hwy 111, Palm Springs. Palm Springs Aerial Tramway property, around and below parking area
33.83861 -116.61361
793 meters (2601ft)
Rocky, dry NE-facing slopes, bedrock apparently granitic-metamorphic; soil sandy, with gravel and large boulders. Western Sonoran Desert scrub, including Eriogonum fasciculatum, Spharalcea ambigua, Mirabilis bigelovii, Eriodictyon crassifolium, Bernrdia, Prosopis, etc.
Common fern, fronds white glaucous beneath, dark green above, unrolled in moist pockets among boulders in shade, curled and dry in exposed areas.