MUTAU FLATS ROAD BURN AREA, VENTURA CO. JUNE 2008

I am extremely grateful to Ventura County botanist David Magney of David Magney Environmental Consulting for his help in identifying many of these species which were previously unfamiliar to me and for letting me know about this amazing area which in 2008 is producing a display which due to the con-junction of the fires and the rains is unlikely to be repeated anytime soon.



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.


 
 
Douglas's stitchwort ^
Minuartia douglasii
Caryophyllaceae
 
 
Chick lupine
Lupinus microcarpus var. microcarpus
Fabaceae
Bristly pectocarya
Pectocarya setosa
Boraginaceae
   
Western hawksbeard ^
Crepis occidentalis
Asteraceae
Limestone phacelia
Phacelia affinis
Hydrophyllaceae


 
Mountain blue penstemon
Penstemon laetus var. laetus
Scrophulariaceae
  
Sticky madia
Madia gracilis
Asteraceae


   
Munz's buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum var. munzii
Polygonaceae
  
Red mariposa lily
Calochortus kennedyi var. kennedyi
Liliaceae
  
Blazing star
Mentzelia sp.
Loasaceae


 
 
Western wallflower
Erysimum capitatum ssp. capitatum
Brassicaceae
 
 
 
 
Flax-like monardella ^
Monardella linoides ssp. oblonga
Lamiaceae
Pursh's milkvetch
Astragalus purshii var. tinctus
Fabaceae
 
 


   
Plain mariposa lily
Calochortus invenustus
Liliaceae
 

Whispering bells
Emmenanthe penduliflora var. penduliflora
Hydrophyllaceae
 
Curved stem phacelia
Phacelia curvipes
Hydrophyllaceae
   
Baja navarretia ^
Navarretia peninsularis
Polemoniaceae
Lavender windows
Phacelia exilis
Hydrophyllaceae
   
California fiddleleaf
Nama californicum
Hydrophyllaceae
Intermediate suncup
Camissonia intermedia
Onagraceae
   


 
Sand cress
Calyptridium monandrum
Portulacaceae


 
 
Miner's lettuce
Claytonia sp.
Portulacaceae
 
Silver puffs
Uropappus lindleyi
Asteraceae
Pale yellow lupine ^
Lupinus luteolus
Fabaceae