CYRUS CANYON, KERN RIVER VALLEY
MARCH 2009
PAGE TWO


   
Spreading pygmyleaf ^
Loeflingia squarrosa
Caryophyllaceae

[Named for Pehr Löfling, 1729-1756]
 
Slender popcorn flower ^
Plagiobothrys tenellus
Boraginaceae
 


 
Spring draba
Draba verna
Brassicaceae


Common fiddleneck
Amsinckia intermedia
Boraginaceae
[Named for Wilhelm Amsinck, 1752-1831]
 
 
Hog fennel
Lomatium utriculatum
Apiaceae
 
Camouflaged grasshoppe
 


 
Strigose lotus
Lotus strigosus
Fabaceae



 
 
Caterpillar phacelia
Phacelia cicutaria var. hispida
Hydrophyllaceae
 
 
cf. Little wiry sun cup
Camissonia pusilla
Onagraceae

Chaparral yucca
Hesperoyucca whipplei
Liliaceae

[Named for Amiel Weeks Whipple, (\1817-1863]
Unidentified gilia
Gilia sp.
Polemoniaceae
Hairy blue sage
Salvia dorrii var. pilosa
Lamiaceae

[Named for Clarendon Herbert Dorr, 1816-1887]


 
Bigelow's coreopsis
Leptosyne bigelovii
Asteraceae

[Named for John Milton Bigelow, 1804-1878]


       
   
White fiesta flower
Pholistoma membranaceum
Hydrophyllaceae
   
    Tansy phacelia
Phacelia tanacetifolia
Hydrophyllaceae


   
Interior goldenbush
Ericameria linearifolia
Asteraceae
 



   
Threadstem
Pterostegia drymarioides
Polygonaceae
 
Coville's lip fern
Myriopteris covillei
Pteridaceae

[Named for Frederick Vernon Coville, 1867-1937]
 


 
Unidentified lomatium
Lomatium sp.
Apiaceae


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