UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0016747
UCR-BPS-261493
UCR-261493
Asclepias californica Greene
Apocynaceae
A.C. Sanders
41617
2015-05-04
2015-5-4
Robin Kinmont
United States, California, Kern, Brite Valley c. 10 km (airline) west of Tehachapi, near 90° bend in Hwy 202 above Cummings Valley Rd., NE of Cummings Valley
35.13583 -118.55948
1271 meters (4169ft)
Lower, S-facing, alluvial slopes below steep hills; annual grassland dominated by Bromus diandrus & B. rubens, with a few scattered oaks. Loam soil.
Flowering
Uncommon perennial, scattered on open hillsides, stems ascending; fls. deep wine-red.