United States, California, Riverside, SE of Banning, old gravel pit/dump E of water treatment facility, along Smith Creek, 320 m S of E. Westward Ave. S end of gravel pit. UTM Zone 11 0514495 E 3752752N. NE1/4 of Sec 14.
33.91667 -116.84167 +-1000m. NAD 1983
georef from old CCH cumulative file
628 meters (2060ft)
Spreading annual with light-purple fls, in disturbed openings on granitic sandy soils, sometimes w/ other Erodium in more weedy areas. Cattle-grazed site on SE-sloping bajada, otherwise with dense catclaw and buckwheat scrubs where undeveloped. California Buckwheat Scrub Succession. Associated species: Acacia gregii, Chilopsis linearis, Eriogonum fasciculatum, E. gracile, Croton californicus, Eremocarpa setigerus, Dichelostemma capitatum, Plagiobothrys canescens, Cryptantha intermedia, Camissonia pallida, E. strigulosa, Lupinus bicolor, Schismus and Bromus rubens.
Label says: City of Banning - Liberty biomass proposed project botanical survey.