UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR-BPS-241553
UCR-241553
Olneya tesota A. Gray
Fabaceae
A.C. Sanders
40832
2013-05-09
2013-5-9
T.B. Salvato
United States, California, Imperial, Chuckwalla Bench, south of Chuckwalla Mountains, along BLM road 620 (E-W powerline road), c. 3.65 km east of rd. 552, 2.3 km SE of Raineys Well
33.41332 -115.16538
T9S R17E sec2
486 meters (1594ft)
Alluvial slope cut by a number of washes with desert pavement between them; creosote bush scrub/microphyll woodland with Olneya, Parkinsonia florida, Larrea, Fouquieria, Ambrosia dumosa, Cylindropuntia munzii, C. bigelovii, Encelia farinosa, etc.
Flowering
Common 3-8 m trees along all washes, probably the most common tree in the bench; fls. pink and cream.