CAS - California Academy of Sciences Vascular Plants (CAS:BOT-BC)
334465
urn:catalog:CAS:BOT-BC:334465
urn:catalog:CAS:BOT:1159708
Olneya tesota A. Gray
Fabaceae
Original Material
Sanders, A. C.; Salvato, T. B.
40832
2013-05-09
09 May 2013
United States, California, Imperial County, Sonoran (Colorado) Desert: Chuckwalla Bench, S of Chuckwalla Mountains, along BLM road 620 (E-W powerline road), c. 3.65 km E of rd. 552, 2.3 km SE of Raineys Well
33.4133166667 -115.1653833333
33° 24.799' N, 115° 09.923' W
486 meters
486.0000000000 m
Along all washes. Alluvial slope cut by a number of washes with desert pavement betwen them; creosote bush scrub/microphyll woodland with Olneya, Parkinsonia florida, Larrea, Fouquireia, Ambrosia dumosa, Cylindropuntia munzii, C. bigelovii, Encelia farinosa, etc.
Common 3--8 m trees, probably the most common tree in the bench; fls. pink and cream.