MT. EDNA ROAD, SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS
MAY 2008
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Mt. Edna Road goes off to the right of Rt. 243 as it winds up the mountain from Banning to Idyllwild. This was a field trip organized by Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and led by botanist Steve Boyd. It's roughly five or six miles to this location from the bottom of the hill. |
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Thickleaf yerba santa Eriodictyon crassifolium var. crassifolium Hydrophyllaceae |
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Elegant rock-cress Arabis sparsiflora var. californica Brassicaceae |
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Yellow pincushion Chaenactis glabriuscula var. glabriuscula Asteraceae |
Tejon cryptantha Cryptantha microstachys Boraginaceae |
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Globe gilia Gilia capitata ssp. abrotanifolia Polemoniaceae |
Yellow monkeyflower Mimulus brevipes Scrophulariaceae |
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White snapdragon Antirrhinum coulterianum Scrophulariaceae [Named for Dr. Thomas Coulter, 1783-1843] |
California poppy Eschscholzia californica Papaveraceae [Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1783-1831] |
California chicory Rafinesquia californica Asteraceae [Named for Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1783-1840] |
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Many-flowered monkeyflower Mimulus floribundus Scrophulariaceae |
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Canterbury bells Phacelia minor Hydrophyllaceae |
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Southern Chinese houses Collinsia concolor Scrophulariaceae [Named for Zacheus Collins, 1764-1831] |
Southern tauschia Tauschia arguta Apiaceae [Named for Ignaz Friedrich Tausch, 1793-1848] |
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