COYOTE CANYON/BOX CANYON, ANZA-BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK
FEBRUARY 2009 PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters
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Several miles of occasionally rough road and two crossings of seasonally flooded channels brings you from the end of DiGiorgio Road through Lower Coyote Canyon to where you can park and scramble across a wide open washy area to the mouth of Box Canyon, which is a spectacular and apparently little-visited area full of interesting desert vegetation. At this point in early February, many annuals have begun to bloom, and the recent precipitation bodes well for a better blooming season than appeared likely a few weeks ago. An asterisk next to the common name indicates a non-native species, and an upside-down V symbol indicates a taxon that was new to me when I photographed it on this field trip. |
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Arizona lupine Lupinus arizonicus Fabaceae |
Bearded cryptantha Cryptantha barbigera Boraginaceae |
Spanish needles Palafoxia arida var. arida Asteraceae |
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Spectacle pod Dithyrea californica Brassicaceae |
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Desert sand verbena Abronia villosa var. villosa Nyctaginaceae |
Peirson's brown-eyed primrose
Camissonia claviformis ssp. peirsonii Onagraceae |
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Brittlebush Encelia farinosa Asteraceae |
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Basket evening primrose Oenothera deltoides ssp. deltoides Onagraceae |
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Desert dandelion Malacothrix glabrata Asteraceae |
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Palmer's crinklemat Tiquilia palmeri Boraginaceae |
Small-seeded spurge Chamaesyce polycarpa Euphorbiaceae |
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Desert chicory Rafinesquia neomexicana Asteraceae |
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Longbeak streptanthella Streptanthella longirostris Brassicaceae |
Desert agave Agave deserti Liliaceae |
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Mulefat Baccharis salicifolia ssp. salicifolia Asteraceae |
Schott's indigo bush Psorothamnus schottii Fabaceae |
Redroot cryptantha Cryptantha micrantha Boraginaceae |
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