LOCKWOOD VALLEY/MUTAU FLATS ROAD, VENTURA COUNTY
MAY 2008 PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters




To get to this area, you exit I-5 onto Frazier Mountain Park Road at the southern part of Lebec and head west to a left turn onto Lockwood Valley at Cuddy Creek, then go south. I made several trips to this area and the flora was great due to a recent fire. I am extremely grateful to Ventura County botanist David Magney of David Magney Environmental Consulting for his help in identifying many of these species which were previously unfamiliar to me and for letting me know about this amazing area which in 2008 is producing a display which due to the conjunction of the fires and the rains is unlikely to be repeated anytime soon.


   
Red mariposa lily
Calochortus kennedyi var. kennedyi
Liliaceae
[Named for William Ledlie Kennedy, c. 1827-1887]
  
Pine green gentian
Frasera neglecta
Gentianaceae
[Named for John Fraser, 1750-1811]
  
Spring lessingia
Lessingia tenuis
Asteraceae
[Named for Christian Friedrich Lessing, 1809-1862, and two of his relatives]
 


 
Thurber's spineflower
Centrostegia thurberi
Polygonaceae
[Named for George Thurber, 1821-1890]


 
 
Mojave sun cup
Camissonia campestris var. campestris
Onagraceae
[Named for Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso, 1781-1838]
 
 
Heartleaf thornmint
Acanthomintha obovata ssp. cordata
Lamiaceae
California evening primrose
Oenothera californica var. californica
Onagraceae
Dense-fruited monkeyflower
Mimulus constrictus
Scrophulariaceae
Oak mistletoe
Phoradendron villosum
Viscaceae


 
Great valley phacelia
Phacelia ciliata
Hydrophyllaceae
 
Douglas phacelia
Phacelia douglasii
Hydrophyllaceae
[Named for David Douglas, 1798-1834]


 
 
Pale larkspur
Delphinium parishii ssp. pallidum
Ranunculaceae
[Named for Sanuel Bonsall Parish, 1838-1928, and William Fletcher Parish, 1840-1918
 
 
 
 
Narrow pod locoweed
Astragalus filipes
Fabaceae
Golden yarrow
Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum
Asteraceae
 
 


 
California poppy
Eschscholzia californica
Papaveraceae
[Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1783-1831]
Coyote tobacco
Nicotiana attenuata
Solanaceae
[Named for Jean Nicot de Villemain, 1530-1600]
 
 
Mt. Pinos onion
Allium howellii var. clokeyi
Liliaceae
[Namd for John Thomas Howell, 1903-1994, and Ira Waddell Clokey, 1878-1950
Grape soda lupine
Lupinus excubitus var. excubitus
Fabaceae
Jepson's morning glory
Calystegia malacophylla ssp. pedicellata
Convolvulaceae
   
Martin's paintbrush
Castilleja applegatei ssp. martinii
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Domingo Castillejo Muñoz, 1744-1793]
Transmontane gilia
Gilia transmontana
Polemoniaceae
[Named for Filippo Luigi Gilii, 1756-1821]
 


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