UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0000456
UCR-BPS-277068
UCR-277068
Hesperoyucca whipplei (Torrey) Trel.
Agavaceae
R.G. Swinney
15079
2011-06-07
2011-6-7
United States, California, Los Angeles, summit of Mount Mooney, 0.4 air-mile east of Angeles Crest Hwy & 0.5 mile north of jct. of Angeles Crest Hwy & entrance to Charlton Flats, 0.32 mi. WNW of Mt. Mooney Rd. jct. with rd. to Stony Ridge Observatory
34.30583 -118.00667
T3N R11W sec35
1768 meters (5799ft)
Station Fire burn of 2009; rounded summit w/ dark brown, fine-grained loam; transition zone, dominants incl. Quercus wis., Eriodictyon cr., E. par., Pinus co., Adenostoma f., Ceanothus int., also w/ Lotus, Camissoniopsis, Hesperoyucca, Frangula.
Buds only
Uncommon peren., single 2.3 m tall infl. Schiphophorus yuccae (beetles) present.