RED ROCK CANYON, KERN COUNTY
MARCH 2009 PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters
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This was just a quick 1-hour hop on the Hagen Canyon Nature Trail at Red Rock Canyon State Park on the way back from my field trip to Kern County. Red Rock Canyon is on CA-14 approximately 25 miles north of Mojave. A preliminary flora of Red Rock Canyon by former Ranger Mark Faull is online here. Aside from its wildflowers, it is also a significant paleontological area with fossils dating back 8-10 million years which when I was a volunteer at the La Brea Tar Pits I visited several times on Museum-sanctioned fossil hunts.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, and an asterisk denotes a non-native species. |
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Palmer's monkeyflower Mimulus palmeri Scrophulariaceae |
Desert dandelion Malacothrix glabrata Asteraceae |
Parry's linanthus Linanthus parryae Polemoniaceae |
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Desert alyssum Lepidium fremontii var. fremontii Brassicaceae |
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Woolly daisy Eriophyllum wallacei Asteraceae |
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Mojave owl's clover ^ Castilleja exserta ssp. venusta Scrophulariaceae |
California goldfields Lasthenia californica ssp. californica Asteraceae |
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Checker fiddleneck Amsinckia tessellata var. tessellata Boraginaceae |
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Fremont's pincushion Chaenactis fremontii Asteraceae |
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Tansy phacelia Phacelia tanacetifolia Hydrophyllaceae |
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Yellow peppergrass Lepidium flavum var. flavum Brassicaceae |
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cf. Rosy gilia Gilia sinuata Polemoniaceae |
Mojave woolstar Eriastrum densifolium ssp. mohavense Asteraceae |
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Desert trumpet Eriogonum inflatum Polygonaceae |
Mojave spineflower Chorizanthe spinosa Polygonaceae |
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Pringle's woolly sunflower Eriophyllum pringlei Asteraceae |
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