PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, THREE POINTS TO LITTLE ROCK CREEK ROAD,
SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS
JULY 2014 PAGE FOUR


 
 
Sigmoid threadplant
Nemacladus sigmoideus
Campanulaceae

[sigmoideus = S-shaped, from the Greek letter Sigma, for the S-curved pedicels]
 
 
   



 
Sugar pine
Pinus lambertiana
Pinaceae


 
Jepson's bedstraw
Galium jepsonii
Rubiaceae
[These plants that we have been seeing in the San Gabriels from Mt. Waterman to Pacifico Mountain are difficult to distinguish from G. johnstonii which is apparently in part of the same area.]
 
 
 
Pine green-gentian
Frasera neglecta
Gentianaceae


   
Mojave linanthus
Leptosiphon breviculus
Polemoniaceae



   
Big-cone spruce
Pseudotsuga macrocarpa
Pinaceae
 
Incense-cedar
Calocedrus decurrens
Cupressaceae


 
San Gabriel Mountains hulsea
Hulsea vestita ssp. gabrielensis
Asteraceae



   
Rock melic
Melica stricta
Poaceae
 
Ashy silk-tassel
Garrya flavescens
Garryaceae
 
Volcanic gilia
Gilia ochroleuca ssp. bizonata
Polemoniaceae


 
California-aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
Asteraceae

[filaginifolia = with leaves like those of Filago, referring to the white, woolly threads on the leaf surfaces]


 
 
Parry's manzanita
Arctostaphylos parryana ssp. parryana
Ericaceae
 
 
 



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