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California Transect 2008 ~ Plant photos, etc.

Photos by Fred Watson and others as indicated.


Desert mariposa lily
Calochortus kennedyi
Cowhorn Valley


Western White Pine
Ebbetts Pass

Bigelow's monkeyflower
Mimulus bigelovii
Chalk Bluff

Thistle
Cirsium sp.
Photo: Francsico.

Yellow eyes
Lupinus flavoculatus
Photo: Thor.

Antelope bitterbrush
Purshia tridentata
Black Point

Snow algae
Chlamydomonas nivalis ?
Greenhorn Mountains

Fungus ?
On bat guano in
Big Pine volcanic cave

Giant sequoia
Sequoia giganteum
Freeman Grove. Photo: Francisco.


Penstemon ?
Penstemon sp.
Greenhorn Mountains


Rock (?) gilia
Gilia scopulorum ?
Owens Valley


Yellow cryptantha
Cryptantha flava ?
Cowhorn Valley

Mushroom
Freeman Grove

Fremont cottonwood
Populus fremontii
Kern River Preserve

Our Lord's candle
Yucca whipplei
Tule River Valley

Orange cup fungus
e.g. Caloscypha fulgens ?
Freeman Grove

Hedgehog cactus
Echinocereus engelmannii
Cowhorn Valley

Mojave aster
Xylorhiza tortifolia
Owens Valley

Desert evening primrose ?
Oenothera caespitosa
Photo: Jared.




Beavertail cactus
Opuntia basilaris
Owens Valley

Cottontop (cactus)
Echinocactus polycephalus
Owens Valley. Photo: Thor.


Mojave prickly pear ?
Opuntia erinacea
Cowhorn Valley

Anderson wolfberry
Lycium andersonii
Fossil Falls

Four-winged saltbush
Atriplex canescens
Kern River Preserve

Big sage
Artemesia tridentata
White Mountains

Sugar pine, Western white pine,
White fir, etc.
Greenhorn Mountains

Black Oak sprouting from stumps after fire
Quercus kelloggii
Oak Creek

Desert larkspur
Delphinium parishii
Alabama Hills

Indigo bush or Milkvetch ?
Cowhorn Valley

Notch-leaf phaecelia ?
Phacelia crenulata
Alabama Hills


Pringle's woolly sunflower
Eriophyllum pringlei
Oak Creek


? Phacelia ?
Oak Creek

Rayless daisy ?
Erigeron aphanactis
Cowhorn Valley


Bristlecone pines ~ Pinus longaeva ~ White Mountains

Photo: Francsico.
Desert (?) p aintbrushes ~ Castilleja chromosa ~ Cowhorn Valley etc.

Alumroot
Heuchera rubescens
Elephant Mountain

Stansbury’s phlox
Phlox stansburyi
Cowhorn Valley

Cushion buckwheat
Eriogonum ovalifolium ?
Cowhorn Valley

Western white (?) pine
Pinus monticola
Greenhorn Mtns. Photo: Francsico.

Scarlet locoweed
Astralagus coccineus
Cowhorn Valley

Sierra Juniper ~ Juniperus occidentalis ~ Elephant Mountain

Spiny hopsage
Grayia spinosa
Cowhorn Valley

Inyo onion
Allium atrorubens
Cowhorn Valley

Indigo bush ?
Chalk Bluff

Indigo bush ?
Psorothamnus arborescens
Devil's Gate

Milkvetch ?
Astralagus sp.
Chalk Bluff

Yellow cryptantha
Cryptantha flava ?
Black Point

Yellow nude buckwheat
Eriogonum nudum var. westonii
Big Pine volcanic field

?
Chalk Bluff

Bigelow's monkeyflower
Mimulus bigelovii
Black Point

Cowhorn Valley


Chalk Bluff


Photo: Thor.
Ephedra, with cones~ Ephedra sp.


Cowhorn Valley


Photo: Thor.

Photo: Thor.
Joshua Tree ~ Yucca brevifolia


Daisy
Erigeron sp. ?
Cowhorn Valley

Apricot mallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua
Cowhorn Valley. Photo: Jared.

Penstemon ?
Black Point


Black Point

Desert peach
Prunus andersonii


Sinamon Cut


Mule ears
Wyethia mollis
Sinamon Cut


Cushion buckwheat
Eriogonum ovalifolium
Black Point

Rabbitbrush
Chrysothamnus nauseousus
Chalk Bluff

?
Black Point
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