| JEPSON WORKSHOP: MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE APRIL 2003 PAGE ONE |
| Photographs by Michael Charters |
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This was the first of the twenty Jepson workshops I have taken, and we were very fortunate that it was led by Bruce Baldwin from Berkeley with the able assistance of Jim Andre of the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, located just north of the 1-40 on Kelbaker Road. The Mojave National Preserve is a spectacular land of volcanic cinder cones, sand dunes, mountains and canyons, forests of joshua trees, and fields of wildflowers when there has been sufficient rain. The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 created the Preserve, and of its 1,600,000 acres, approximately 695,200 are designated as a Wilderness Area. About 25% of its average 3-5 inches of annual rainfall are produced by summer monsoonal thunderstorms. The highest point of the Preserve is the summit of Clark Mountain at 7,929' and the lowest is about 880' near Baker. An asterisk next to the common name indicates a non-native species. |
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| Blue sage Salvia dorrii var. pilosa Lamiaceae [Named for Clarendon Herbert Dorr, 1816-1887] |
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White tidy tips Layia glandulosa Asteraceae [Named for George Tradescant Lay, 1799-1845] |
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| Borrego milkvetch Astragalus lentiginosus var. borreganus Fabaceae |
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| Woolly marigold Baileya pleniradiata Asteraceae [Named for Jacob Whitman Bailey, 1811-1857] |
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| Barbwire Russian thistle * Salsola paulsenii Chenopodiaceae [Named for Ove Paulsen, 1874-1947] |
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| Wrinkled spineflower Chorizanthe corrugata Polygonaceae |
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Woolly daisy Eriophyllum wallacei Asteraceae [Named for William Allen Wallace, 1815-1893] |
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