Lavender windows Phacelia exilis Boraginaceae

Little wiry sun cup Camissonia pusilla Onagraceae [Named for Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso, 1781-1838]		Low pussytoes Antennaria dimorpha Asteraceae

		Sand ricegrass Stipa hymenoides Poaceae		San Bernardino Mountains owl's clover Castilleja lasiorhyncha Orobanchaceae
Minthorn's milkvetch Astragalus minthorniae var. villosus Fabaceae [Named for Maud Aileen Minthorn, 1883-1966]

Red mariposa lily Calochortus kennedyi var. kennedyi Liliaceae [Named after William Ledlie Kennedy, c.1827-1887, plant collector in Kern Co.]

Mojave ceanothus Ceanothus pauciflorus Rhamnaceae

		San Bernardino bluegrass Poa atropurpurea Poaceae
Mojave yucca Yucca schidigera Agavaceae

		Moss rush Juncus bryoides Juncaceae		San Bernardino Mountains monkeyflower Erythranthe exigua Phrymaceae
Suksdorf's monkeyflower Erythranthe suksdorfii Phrymaceae [Named after German plant collector Wilhelm Nicolaus Suksdorf, 1850-1932]

		Purple mat Nama demissa var. demissa Boraginaceae
San Bernardino Mountains dudleya Dudleya abramsii ssp. affinis Crassulaceae [Named after botanist and plant collector LeRoy Abrams, 1874-1956]

Narrow-leaved brickellbush Brickellia oblongifolia var. linifolia Asteraceae [Named John Brickell, 1749-1809]
		Muller's oak Quercus cornelius-mulleri Fagaceae [Named after UC Santa Barbara botany professor Cornelius Herman Muller, 1909-1997]

Pinewoods fritillary Fritillaria pinetorum Liliaceae		Parish's rock-cress Boechera parishii Brassicaceae [Named for Tyge Wittrock Böcher, 1909-1983]

 

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