SOUTH FORK TRAIL TO DRY LAKE, SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS
AUGUST 2008 PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters
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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. |
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Ragged leaf bahia Bahia dissecta Asteraceae |
Ranger's buttons Sphenosciadium capitellatum Apiaceae |
Meadow arnica Arnica chamissonis ssp. foliosa Asteraceae |
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Desert crested wheatgrass Agropyron desertorum Poaceae |
Perennial chickweed * Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare Caryophyllaceae |
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Small-leaved creambush Holodiscus microphyllus var. microphyllus Rosaceae |
Fremont's goosefoot Chenopodium fremontii Chenopodiaceae |
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Western mountain aster Aster occidentalis var. occidentalis Asteraceae |
Common wild oats Avena fatua Poaceae |
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Water cress Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum Brassicaceae |
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Hoary-aster Machaeranthera canescens var. canescens Asteraceae |
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Pine rock-cress Arabis holboellii var. pinetorum Brassicaceae |
Parish's bedstraw Galium parishii Rubiaceae |
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Parish's catchfly Silene parishii Caryophyllaceae |
White-veined wintergreen Pyrola picta Ericaceae |
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Wright's buckwheat Eriogonum wrightii var. subscaposum Polygonaceae |
San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. bernardinus Asteraceae |
Rydberg's horkelia Horkelia rydbergii Rosaceae |
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