Dry Lake is a small, shallow, seasonal body of water about 1-3/4 miles south of South Fork Meadows, surrounded by the high arc of Jepson Peak, San Gorgonio Mountain, Lake Peak and Grinnell Mountain. There are two Forest Service campgrounds there used most often by people making overnight hiking trips to San Gorgonio. From Dry Lake it is a fairly easy 2 miles to Mineshaft Saddle from which you can be on the summit of Old Grayback in a couple of hours. 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. An asterisk indicates a non-native species.

Ragged leaf bahia
Bahia dissecta
Asteraceae

Ranger's buttons
Sphenosciadium capitellatum
Apiaceae

Meadow arnica
Arnica chamissonis ssp. foliosa
Asteraceae

Desert crested wheatgrass
Agropyron desertorum
Poaceae

Perennial chickweed *
Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare
Caryophyllaceae

Small-leaved creambush
Holodiscus microphyllus var. microphyllus
Rosaceae

Western mountain aster
Aster occidentalis var. occidentalis
Asteraceae

Water cress
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
Brassicaceae

Hoary-aster
Machaeranthera canescens var. canescens
Asteraceae

Parish's bedstraw
Galium parishii
Rubiaceae
[Named for Samuel Bonsall Parish,

Wright's buckwheat
Eriogonum wrightii var. subscaposum
Polygonaceae
[Named for Charles Wright, 1811-1885]

San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush
Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. bernardinus
Asteraceae

Rydberg's horkelia
Horkelia rydbergii
Rosaceae
[Named for Johann Horkel, 1769-1846, and Per Axel Rydberg, 1860-1931]