Full Record Details

Catalog #: RSA0117064

Occurrence ID: 77dae860-2f60-4a50-9bc7-648baf0aa4f1

Family: Asteraceae

Collector: Rachel Darney-Lane

Number: 17

Date: 2016-09-20

Additional Collectors: Sarah J. De Groot, Duncan S. Bell

Locality: United States, California, San Bernardino, BLMCastle Mountains National Monument; Hart Mine Road to NN 144, east of Barnwell. Ca. 1 air mile west of Hart (site).

Latitude/Longitude: 35.28323  -115.12121  NAD83

Verbatim Coordinates: T14N R17E S23 NW1/4

Elevation: 1312 meters Verbatim Elevation: 4304ft.

Habitat: Open valley with wash at bottom. Slope is 2 degrees, facing south. Holocene and Pleistocene alluvium below hills of Miocene rhyolite tuff, domes, and dikes; and volcanic breccia and sedimentary rocks. Silt, sand, gravel soil, 7.5 YR 4/4 brown. Joshua tree woodland, Larrea-Ambrosia scrub, and desert wash vegetation.

Associated Taxa: Sporobolus contractus, Chilopsis linearis, Yucca brevifolia, Ambrosia eriocentra, Muhlenbergia porteri, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Yucca baccata, Larrea tridentata, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, Krameria erecta, Eriogonum inflatum, Eriogonum plumatella, Stipa speciosa, Stipa hymenoides, Ambrosia salsola, Bouteloua eriopoda, Bouteloua barbata, Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus, Baileya multiradiata, Psilostrophe cooperi, Scutellaria mexicana, Salvia dorrii, Linanthus, Sporobolus flexuosus, Gutierrezia microcephala, Dasyochloa pulchella, Castilleja chromosa, Chamaesyce setiloba, Chamaesyce micromera, Chamaesyce serpyllifolia, Chamaesyce cf. albomarginata, Amaranthus fimbriatus, Opuntia erinacea, Ephedra cf. nevadensis, Prunus cf. fasciculata, Eriastrum eremicum, Adenophyllum cooperi.

Description: Perennial, 1.5-5 feet tall.

Reproductive Condition: flowers

Preparations: herbarium sheet

Notes: Approximately 300 plants in the area.