MUTAU FLATS ROAD BURN AREA, VENTURA CO.
JUNE 2008
Photographs by Michael Charters




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.


 
 
Douglas's stitchwort
Minuartia douglasii
Caryophyllaceae
[Named for David Douglas, 1798-1834]
 
 
Chick lupine
Lupinus microcarpus var. microcarpus
Fabaceae
Bristly pectocarya
Pectocarya setosa
Boraginaceae
   
Western hawksbeard
Crepis occidentalis
Asteraceae
Limestone phacelia
Phacelia affinis
Hydrophyllaceae


 
Mountain blue penstemon
Penstemon laetus var. laetus
Scrophulariaceae
  
Sticky madia
Madia gracilis
Asteraceae


   
Munz's buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum var. munzii
Polygonaceae
[Named for Philip Alexander Munz, 1892-1974]
 
Red mariposa lily
Calochortus kennedyi var. kennedyi
Liliaceae
[Named for William Ledlie Kennedy, c. 1827-1887]
  
Blazing star
Mentzelia sp.
Loasaceae
[Named for Christian Mentzel, 1622-1701]


 
 
Western wallflower
Erysimum capitatum var. capitatum
Brassicaceae
 
 
 
 
Flax-like monardella
Monardella linoides ssp. oblonga
Lamiaceae
Pursh's milkvetch
Astragalus purshii var. tinctus
Fabaceae
[Named for Frederick Traugott Pursh, 1774-1820]
 
 


 
Plain mariposa lily
Calochortus invenustus
Liliaceae
California fiddleleaf
Nama californicum
Hydrophyllaceae
 
 
Baja navarretia
Navarretia peninsularis
Polemoniaceae
[Named for Francisco Fernandez de Navarrete, 1680-1742]
Whispering bells
Emmenanthe penduliflora var. penduliflora
Hydrophyllaceae
Intermediate suncup
Camissonia intermedia
Onagraceae
[Named for Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso, 1781-1838]
   
Lavender windows
Phacelia exilis
Hydrophyllaceae
Curved stem phacelia
Phacelia curvipes
Hydrophyllaceae
 


 
Sand cress
Calyptridium monandrum
Portulacaceae


 
 
Pale yellow lupine
Lupinus luteolus
Fabaceae
 
Silver puffs
Uropappus lindleyi
Asteraceae
[Named for John Lindley, 1799-1865]
Miner's lettuce
Claytonia sp.
Portulacaceae
[Named for John Clayton, 1694-1773]
   


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