HENDERSON CANYON, ANZA-BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK
MARCH 2008
Photographs by Michael Charters




Henderson Canyon is immediately north of Borrego Palm Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. This photo gallery is the result of two visits on March 6 and March 14, 2008, the second of which was with Tom Chester and Wayne Armstrong, creator of the wonderful website Wayne's World.


   
Bigelow's monkeyflower
Mimulus bigelovii var. bigelovii
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for John Milton Bigelow, 1804-1878]
 
Caterpillar phacelia
Phacelia cicutaria var. hispida
Hydrophyllaceae
  
Beavertail cactus
Opuntia basilaris var. basilaris
Cactaceae
   


 
 
California cloak fern
Notholaena californica
Pteridaceae
 
 
Desert chicory
Rafinesquia neomexicana
Asteraceae
[Named for Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1783-1840]
Chuparosa
Justicia californica
Asteraceae
[Named for James Justice, 1698-1763]
   
Desert rockpea
Lotus rigidus
Fabaceae
Desert threadplant
Nemacladus rubescens
Campanulaceae


   
Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
Asteraceae
[Named for Christoph Entzelt, 1517-1583]
 
Bajada lupine
Lupinus concinnus
Fabaceae
 


 
 
Desert star
Monoptilon bellioides
Asteraceae
 
 
 
 
Hall's caulanthus
Caulanthus hallii
Brassicaceae
[Named for Harvey Monroe Hall, 1874-1932]
Fishhook cactus
Mammillaria dioica
Cactaceae
 
 


 
Little gold poppy
Eschscholzia minutiflora
Papaveraceae
  
Parish's poppy
Eschscholzia parishii
Papaveraceae
[Named for Dr. Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholt, 1793-1831]


   
Rock crossosoma
Crossosoma bigelovii
Crossosomataceae


 
Peirson's brown-eyed primrose
Camissonia claviformis ssp. peirsonii
Onagraceae
Short-winged deerweed
Lotus scoparius var. brevialatus
Fabaceae
 
 
California wild buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium
Polygonaceae
San Felipe dyssodia
Adenophyllum porophylloides
Asteraceae
Star-flowered bedstraw
Galium stellatum var. eremicum
Rubiaceae
   
Pebble pincushion
Chaenactis carphoclinia
Asteraceae
Star gilia
Gilia stellata
Polemoniaceae
 


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