| MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE SEPTEMBER 2003 PAGE ONE |
| Photographs by Michael Charters |
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In the fall of 2003 I took two field trips to the East Mojave. One was a Jepson workshop and the other was a CNPS outing, both of which were led by Jim Andre of the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, located just north of the 1-40 on Kelbaker Road. The Mojave National Preserve is a huge area and no one or ten field trips can possibly cover it. There is probably no one alive who knows the Preserve and its flora the way Jim Andre does. Even in a rainfall-challenged year, he can usually find some good flora to see, and he and Tasha La Doux welcome all interested people to share in his knowledge and expertise. This was the second of the two Jepson workshops I participated in in 2003. |
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| Woolly marigold Baileya pleniradiata Asteraceae [Named after early American microscopist Jacob Whitman Bailey, 1811-1857] |
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| Desert horned lizard Phrynosoma platyrhinos Phrynosomatidae |
Long-nosed leopard lizard Gambelia wislizenii Crotaphytidae |
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Cattle spinach, Allscale Atriplex polycarpa Chenopodiaceae |
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| Yerba amarilla Mentzelia longiloba Loasaceae |
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| Cooper's dyssodia Adenophyllum cooperi Asteraceae |
Cliff brake Pellaea truncata Pteridaceae |
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Coyote melon Cucurbita palmata Cucurbitaceae |
Creosote bush gall Larrea tridentata Zygophyllaceae |
Chinchweed Pectis papposa var. papposa Asteraceae |
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Desert baccharis Baccharis sergiloides Asteraceae |
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