Alpine pussytoes ^ Antennaria media Asteraceae		Southern alpine buckwheat Eriogonum kennedyi var. alpigenum Polygonaceae [Named for William Ledlie Kennedy, c. 1827-1887]

Brewer's monkeyflower Mimulus breweri Phrymaceae

Mountain heather Phyllodoce breweri Ericaceae

Mountain prickly phlox Linanthus pungens Polemoniaceae

	Snow plant Sarcodes sanguinea Ericaceae
			Watson's spike-moss Selaginella watsonii Selaginellaceae [Named for Sereno Watson, 1826-1892]

Small-leaved creambush Holodiscus microphyllus var. microphyllus Rosaceae

Mountain oxytrope Oxytropis oreophila var. oreophila Fabaceae [Picture on right shows the 'nose,' the keel beak that distinguishes Oxytropis from Astragalus]

Brittle sandwort Minuartia nuttallii var. gracilis Caryophyllaceae [Named for Joán Minuart i Parets, 1693-1768, and Thomas Nuttall, 1786-1859]

Silky raillardella Raillardella argentea Asteraceae [It has recently been suggested (2015) that this species should be better called Raillardella minima Rdyb.]

Wheeler's cinquefoil ~ Potentilla wheeleri Rosaceae [This is uncertain because of the recent split between P. wheeleri and P. rimicola, but JM2 says rimicola is only in the San Jacintos, and not at as high an elevation as the summit of San Gorgonio. We saw plants that seemed to have a different degree of hairiness which the above photos show, but whether this was due to different habitats we couldn't determine]

Eschscholtz's buttercup ^ Ranunculus eschscholtzii var. oxynotus Ranunculaceae [Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1793-1831]

Cutleaf daisy Erigeron compositus Asteraceae

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