United States, California, El Dorado, Northern Sierra Nevada Foothills. Along little-used dirt road on east side of Sweetwater Creek 0.6 km south of Salmon Falls Road. T10N R08E S01 NW1/4 of SE1/4 USGS Quadrangle: Clarksville 1:24,000
38.746389 -121.045833 NAD 1983
T10N R08E S01 NW1/4 of SE1/4; 38§ 44m 47s N; 121§ 2m 45s W
162 meters (531ft)
Along bench along the creek; transition from creek influence (in-cluding Quercus wislizeni, Ponderosa pine) to chaparral (chamise-dominated, with Quercus dumosa, Ceanothus, Arctostaphylos, scattered gray pine; Salvia sonomensis common on the ground). This plant occasionally abundant well into the chaparral here, not yet flowering; fruiting heads from last year still present; upper stems sticky.