WHITEWATER CANYON
FEBRUARY 2009
PAGE THREE


   
Slender pectocarya
Pectocarya linearis ssp. ferocula
Boraginaceae


 
Woolly daisy
Eriophyllum wallacei
Asteraceae

[Named for William Allen Wallace, 1815-1893]
 
Goldback fern
Pentagramma triangularis ssp. triangularis
Pteridaceae
 


       
   
Rock crossosoma
Crossosoma bigelovii
Crossosomataceae
   
    Parish's poppy
Eschscholzia parishii
Papaveraceae
[Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1793-1831, and the Parish brothers]


 
Mulefat
Baccharis salicifolia ssp. salicifolia
Asteraceae


   
Fourwing saltbush
Atriplex canescens ssp. canescens
Chenopodiaceae
 
Desert bitterbrush
Purshia tridentata var. glandulosa
Rosaceae

[Named for Frederick Traugott Pursh, 1774-1820]
 


 
California ephedra
Ephedra californica
Ephedraceae


 
 
California fan palm
Washingtonia filifera
Arecaceae

[Named for George Washington, 1732-1799]
 
Desert prickly-pear
Opuntia phaeacantha
Cactaceae
Tree tobacco *
Nicotiana glauca
Solanaceae
[Named for Jean Nicot de Villemain, 1530-1600]
 
 


Bee assassin
Apiomerus sp.
Reduviidae
On Peucephyllum schottii

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