NEW YORK MOUNTAINS, MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE
SEPTEMBER 2009 PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters
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I spent a day in late September in the company of Jim Andre and Tasha LaDoux from the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center and some very knowledgeable people from the CNPS out in the New York Mountains region of the East Mojave National Preserve. Some seasonal rainfall had influenced the summer annuals and late-fall blooming plants of this area, and we were able to see some very interesting species, including the very rare Thorne's buckwheat, surprisingly in terrific bloom at the location photographed above. An upside-down V next to the common name indicates a taxon that was new to me when I photographed it on this field trip, and an asterisk is for a non-native species. |
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Noseburn Tragia ramosa Euphorbiaceae |
Giant four o'clock Mirabilis multiflora var. pubescens Nyctaginaceae |
Abert's sanvitalia Sanvitalia abertii Asteraceae |
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Rough menodora Menodora scabra Oleaceae |
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| Ghostly rubber rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca Asteraceae |
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Spreading fleabane Erigeron divergens Asteraceae (75-150 ray flowers) |
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| Goodding's verbena Verbena gooddingii Verbenaceae |
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| Palmer's buckwheat Eriogonum palmerianum Polygonaceae |
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| Desert portulaca Portulaca halimoides Portulacaceae (copiously long-hairy in the axils) |
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Many-flowered bahia Schkuhria multiflora var. multiflora Asteraceae |
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Broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae Asteraceae |
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Broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae Asteraceae |
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Narrow-leaved brickellbush Brickellia oblongifolia var. linifolia Asteraceae |
Scrub lotus Lotus argyraeus var. multicaulis Fabaceae |
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