UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0058081
UCR-BPS-260221
UCR-260221
Lycium andersonii A. Gray
Solanaceae
A.C. Sanders
41365
2015-03-09
2015-3-9
Jim Malusa
United States, California, Riverside, Chocolate Mountains, along Gasline Road at major wash crossing 1.9 miles south of Bradshaw Trail, US Navy Chocolate Mountains Aerial Gunnery Range
33.5012 -115.48445
671 meters (2201ft)
Stony rolling hills cut by wash with coarse granitic sand, and various rocks including basalt and conglomerate; creosote bush scrub with Larrea, Senegalia, Bebbia, Ephedra californica, Fouquieria, Psorothamnus spinosus, Ambrosia dumosa, Encelia farinosa, Lycium andersonii, Yucca schidigera, Tetracoccus, etc.
Flowering & Fruiting
Common 1-2 m shrubs on wash margins, often forming thickets; fls. blue-purple, with long corolla tubes. Intricately branched and spiny. Unripe frt. pale green.