HARFORD SPRINGS RESERVE, GAVILAN HILLS, RIVERSIDE COUNTY
MAY 2012
Photographs by Michael Charters




I returned to Harford Springs about a month after my initial visit with hopes of possibly finding some Munz's onions (Allium munzii) which grow there in clay soils, but unfortunately there were none to be found. I was however able to photograph a few things that were either not seen or not in bloom on the previous visit, the photo gallery for which is online here. Thanks as usual to Hartmut Wisch for the critter id's.


   
Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum var. fasciculatum
Rosaceae
  California juniper
Juniperus californica
Cupressaceae


 
Sapphire woolstar
Eriastrum sapphirinum
Polemoniaceae


       
   
Hoary nettle
Urtica dioica ssp. holosericea
Urticaceae		    
    San Diego tarplant
Deinandra paniculata
Asteraceae


 
 
Crab spider
Mecaphesa sp.
Thomisidae
 
Common water strider
Family Gerridae
 


 
Mexican elderberry
Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea
Adoxaceae
   
Four-valved tobacco
Nicotiana quadrivalvis
Solanaceae
     


 
Deane's wirelettuce
Stephanomeria exigua ssp. deanei
Asteraceae
[Named for George Clement Deane, 1854-1930]
   



   
Three-spot
Osmadenia tenella
Asteraceae
 
Valley cholla
Cylindropuntia bernardina
Cactaceae
  
Watercress
Nasturtium officinale
Brassicaceae


PHOTO GALLERIES
INDEX 		  CALFLORA.NET
CALIFORNIA PLANT NAMES: LATIN AND GREEK MEANINGS AND DERIVATIONS
VIRGINIA PLANT NAMES: LATIN AND GREEK MEANINGS AND DERIVATIONS

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