I was extremely fortunate because of a cancellation to be able to join this Jepson workshop in the Bodie Hills which was led by Tim Messick and Ann Howald, two people who have vast knowledge and personal experience of the plants of the Bodie Hills in particular and Mono County in general. I stayed in Lee Vining, 20 minutes south of Bridgeport, in a rustic but comfortable lodge directly across the road from Mono Lake. The Bodie Hills to the east of Bridgeport are a mountain range comprising 417 square miles of sagebrush scrub and pinyon-juniper woodland ranging from 5,600' to over 10,000' at the top of Potato Peak. We spent much of the time at elevations of about 8,000'. The Bodie Hills extend from Mono County east of US 395 to Mineral and Lyon Counties in Nevada. What at first appears from a distance to be a relatively uninteresting landscape reveals itself upon closer inspection to be teeming with a great variety of plant species made possible by significant variations in geology. Primarily a region of Miocene and Pliocene volcanic strata and sedimentary rocks, it nevertheless contains some smaller granitic zones especially in the Masonic Mountains area, Aurora Peak and Rattlesnake Gulch. Mining of gold and silver were at one time very significant activities, and the town of Bodie itself once had a population of at least 10,000. The Bodie Hills are presumably named for the town, which in turn takes its name from a miner named W.S. Bodey from Poughkeepsie, New York, who is credited with first finding gold in the vicinity. Today the 'ghost town' of Bodie is a National Historic Site visited by a large number of people every year, and there is still gold prospecting taking place in certain areas. For at least 5,000 and perhaps as many as 10,000 years, native American tribes such as the Mono and Northern Paiute made their living here, no doubt developing extensive knowledge of the land and plant species that they found here, and also trading with distant tribes such as the coastal California Chumash and others. Our workshop also made time to visit some areas on the western side of the Bridgeport valley where the flora is somewhat more Sierran. Being a somewhat drier year than last, not all the plants were presenting themselves in the best light, but we were nevertheless lucky to see a great many interesting species, and the workshop group itself was congenial and knowledgeable. There are instances when a varietal or subspecific designation was not certain and so is here omitted. An asterisk next to the common name indicates a non-native taxon. A cf. before the taxon name indicates that the identification is probable but not certain. This was my 21st Jepson workshop. An ^ next to the common name indicates a species that was new to me.

Alpine flames
Pyrrocoma apargioides
Asteraceae

Yellow-staining collomia ^
Collomia tinctoria
Polemoniaceae

Beatley's five-leaved clover ^
Trifolium andersonii ssp. beatleyae
Fabaceae
[Named for Charles Lewis Anderson, 1827-1910, and Janice Carson Beatley, 1919-1987]

American speedwell
Veronica americana
Plantaginaceae

Bodie Hills cusickiella ^
Cusickiella quadricostata
Brassicaceae
[Named for William Conklin Cusick, 1842-1922]

Rosy pussytoes
Antennaria rosea
Asteraceae

Baltic rush ^
Juncus balticus ssp. ater
Juncaceae

Western stickseed ^
Lappula redowskii var. redoskii
Brassicaceae
[Named for Ivan Ivanovich Redovski, 1774-1807]