United States, California, San Bernardino, On El Mirage Road, 12 miles from the Junction of El Mirage and Loala Road.
640 meters
2100 feet
In Joshua Tree Woodland.
Soil: sandy, looses, dry dirt.
Orthocarpus, Astragalus lentiginosus
A common tree with many compact greenish-white flowers in clusters at the end of some branches. The flowers were thick and heavy with water. The tree was about 15 feet tall with leaves modified into sharp, stiff, dull green spines becoming brown with age.