POOPOUT HILL TO SAN GORGONIO SUMMIT JULY 2010 PAGE FIVE


   
Alpine pussytoes ^
Antennaria media
Asteraceae
 
Southern alpine buckwheat
Eriogonum kennedyi var. alpigenum
Polygonaceae


 
Brewer's monkeyflower
Mimulus breweri
Phrymaceae


 
 
Mountain heather
Phyllodoce breweri
Ericaceae

 
Mountain prickly phlox
Linanthus pungens
Polemoniaceae
 


 
Snow plant
Sarcodes sanguinea
Ericaceae
 
   
Watson's spike-moss
Selaginella watsonii
Selaginellaceae


   
Small-leaved creambush
Holodiscus microphyllus var. microphyllus
Rosaceae


 
 
Mountain oxytrope
Oxytropis oreophila var. oreophila
Fabaceae
[Picture on right shows the 'nose,' the keel beak that distinguishes Oxytropis from
Astragalus]
 


 
 
 
Brittle sandwort
Minuartia nuttallii var. gracilis
Caryophyllaceae
 
 



 
Silky raillardella
Raillardella argentea
Asteraceae

[It has recently been suggested (2015) that this species should be better called Raillardella minima Rdyb.]


   
Wheeler's cinquefoil ~
Potentilla wheeleri
Rosaceae

[This is uncertain because of the recent split between P. wheeleri and P. rimicola, but JM2 says rimicola is only in the San Jacintos, and not at as high an elevation as the summit of San Gorgonio. We saw plants that seemed to have a different degree of hairiness which the above photos show, but whether this was due to different habitats we couldn't determine]


 
 
Eschscholtz's buttercup ^
Ranunculus eschscholtzii var. oxynotus
Ranunculaceae
 


 
 
Cutleaf daisy
Erigeron compositus
Asteraceae