The pictures shown here were taken in the course of a Jepson Herbarium field trip to the Eastern Mojave led by Jim Andre, Director of the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center in April. The Center is located just a short distance north of the I-40 that runs along the southern boundary of the East Mojave National Preserve, and is part of the University of California Natural Reserve System, which is a network of natural areas throughout California that support university-level teaching, research and public service. Jim Andre is probably the single most knowledgeable person of the flora of the East Mojave, and he lives at the Center with his wife Tasha LaDoux, Joshua Tree National Park botanist. 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.

Cooper's goldenbush
Ericameria cooperi
Asteraceae
[Named for James Graham Cooper, 1830-1902]

Miniature woolstar
Eriastrum diffusum
Polemoniaceae

Holly-leaf redberry
Rhamnus ilicifolia
Rhamnaceae

Desert thistle ^
Cirsium neomexicanum
Asteraceae

Paperbag bush, Bladder sage
Scutellaria mexicana
Lamiaceae

Mojave yucca
Yucca schidigera
Liliaceae

Winged pectocarya
Pectocarya penicillata
Boraginaceae

Curvenut pectocarya
Pectocarya recurvata
Boraginaceae

Blackbrush
Coleogyne ramosissima
Rosaceae

Yellow penstemon
Keckiella antirrhinoides
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for David Daniels Keck, 1903-1995]

Desert senna
Senna armata
Fabaceae

Goodding's verbena
Verbena gooddingii
Verbenaceae
[Named for Leslie Newton Goodding, 1880-1867]

Checker fiddleneck
Amsinckia tessellata var. tessellata
Boraginaceae
[Named for Wilhelm Amsinck, 1752-1831]

Fremont phacelia
Phacelia fremontii
Hydrophyllaceae
[Named for John Charles Frémont, 1813-1890]

Spreading fleabane
Erigeron divergens
Asteraceae

King's bladderpod
Physaria kingii ssp. kingii
Brassicaceae
[Named for Clarence Rivers King, 1842-1901]