RSA - California Botanic Garden Herbarium (RSA:RSA)
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Mentzelia congesta Nutt. ex Torr. & Gray
Loasaceae
Orlando Mistretta (2005-06)
Tim S. Ross
2609
1990-05-23
Steve D. Boyd
United States, California, Los Angeles, Mt Gleason area: north-northwesterly ridge decending from Messenger Peak (6015 ft) near the headwaters of Mill canyon and Moody Canyon.
34.387358 -118.19321 +-1200m.
T4N R13W S36 SW1/4
auto-generated from TRS by California Phenology Network; February 2021
1720-1799 meters
5640-5900ft.
Local slopes dominated by upper chaparral belt elements including Quercus wislizeni, Q. chrysolepis, Ceanothus greggii vestitus, C. integerrimus, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Pinus coulteri, Cercocarpus betuloides, Ribes roezlii, Eriogonum umbellatum munzii, etc.
Local slopes dominated by upper chaparral belt elements including Quercus wislizeni, Q. chrysolepis, Ceanothus greggii vestitus, C. integerrimus, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Pinus coulteri, Cercocarpus betuloides, Ribes roezlii, Eriogonum umbellatum munzii,etc. Locally scattered annual; flowering bract +/- lanceolate to obovate, whitish below; petals ca 6 mm long, yellow; fruit narrowly obconic, ca 10-11 mm long x 3.7 mm broad; seeds in more than 1 row above, irregularly angled.