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

Fremont's goosefoot
Chenopodium fremontii
Chenopodiaceae

Western mountain aster
Aster occidentalis var. occidentalis
Asteraceae

Common wild oats
Avena fatua
Poaceae

Water cress
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
Brassicaceae

Hoary-aster
Machaeranthera canescens var. canescens
Asteraceae

Pine rock-cress
Arabis holboellii var. pinetorum
Brassicaceae

Parish's bedstraw
Galium parishii
Rubiaceae

Parish's catchfly
Silene parishii
Caryophyllaceae

White-veined wintergreen
Pyrola picta
Ericaceae

Wright's buckwheat
Eriogonum wrightii var. subscaposum
Polygonaceae

San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush
Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. bernardinus
Asteraceae

Rydberg's horkelia
Horkelia rydbergii
Rosaceae