UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0000429
UCR-BPS-281411
UCR-281411
Hesperoyucca whipplei (Torrey) Trel.
Agavaceae
R.G. Swinney
16567
2014-05-19
2014-5-19
United States, California, Los Angeles, Glendora, on ridge between west fork of Engelwild Cyn. and Glenco Heights Cyn., 0.2 miles WNW of Engelwild Debris Basin, 0.72 air-miles SSE of Glendora Ridge Motorway
34.16083 -117.85
T1N R9W sec20
515 meters (1689ft)
Ridge tops and steep canyon slopes, burned in Jan. 2014 Colby Fire; formerly chaparral & coastal sage scrub, resprouting perennials include Salvia me., S. ap., Quercus dur., Malosma, Toxicodendron, Adenostoma, Lonicera s., Ribes c., Rhamnus il., Arctostaphylos glan., Rhus, Mimulus a., Juglans c., etc.
Flowering
Fairly common perennial with 2.4 m infl., cream-colored perianth; burned base, new leaves at base of infl.