JEPSON WORKSHOP: MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE
SEPTEMBER 2003 PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters




In the fall of 2003 I took two field trips to the East Mojave. One was a Jepson workshop and the other was a CNPS outing, both of which were led by 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 huge area and no one or ten field trips can possibly cover it. There is probably no one alive who knows the Preserve and its flora the way Jim Andre does. Even in a rainfall-challenged year, he can usually find some good flora to see, and he and Tasha La Doux welcome all interested people to share in his knowledge and expertise. This was the second of the two Jepson workshops I participated in in 2003.


   
Woolly marigold
Baileya pleniradiata
Asteraceae

[Named for Jacob Whitman Bailey, 1811-1857]


 
Desert horned lizard
Phrynosoma platyrhinos
Phrynosomatidae
  Long-nosed leopard lizard
Gambelia wislizenii
Crotaphytidae
[Named for William Gambel, 1823-1849, and Frederick Adolf Wislizenus, 1810-1889]
 


 
Broom snakeweed
Gutierrezia sarothrae
Asteraceae
[Possibly named for Pedro Gutiérrez Bueno, 1745-1826]
 
 
 
Apricot mallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua var. ambigua
Malvaceae


   
Banana yucca
Yucca baccata var. baccata
Agavaceae




 
 
 
California kallstroemia
Kallstroemia californica
Zygophyllaceae
[Named for Anders Kallström, 1733-1812]
 
 



 
Cattle spinach, Allscale
Atriplex polycarpa
Chenopodiaceae


 
Wright's spiderling
Boerhavia wrightii
Nyctaginaceae
[Named for Herman Boerhaave, 1668-1738, and Charles Wright, 1811-1885]
   
Yerba amarilla
Mentzelia longiloba
Loasaceae
[Named for Christian Mentzel, 1622-1701]
 


 
Cooper's dyssodia
Adenophyllum cooperi
Asteraceae
[Named for James Graham Cooper, 1830-1902]
  Cliff brake
Pellaea truncata
Pteridaceae
 


   
Coyote melon
Cucurbita palmata
Cucurbitaceae
 
Creosote bush gall
Larrea tridentata
Zygophyllaceae

[Named for Juan Antonio Hernández Perez de Larrea, 1731-1803]
 
Chinchweed
Pectis papposa var. papposa
Asteraceae
   


 
Desert baccharis
Baccharis sergiloides
Asteraceae


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