WHITEWATER CANYON
MARCH 2010 PART TWO PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters
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This was the second of my March visits to Whitewater Canyon and covers the area around the bridge over the Whitewater River, both east and west of the river, the entire loop trail, and the canyon area at the bottom of the loop trail where it comes down into the wash. The loop trail is one of the most magnificent trails I have been on. The Visitor Center is just to the right of the center of the above photo. 10,000 Foot Ridge is coming down from the left in the background. As I make these periodic visits to Whitewater Canyon, I will often display photos of plants in some vegetative state and then later in bloom. I am also attempting to show diagnostic features for at least some of the taxa that are included here. |
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Miniature lupine Lupinus bicolor Fabaceae |
California goosefoot Chenopodium californicum Chenopodiaceae |
Canterbury bells Phacelia minor Boraginaceae |
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Desert bitterbrush Purshia tridentata var. glandulosa Rosaceae |
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California figwort Scrophularia californica ssp. floribunda Scrophulariaceae |
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Creosote bush Larrea tridentata Zygophyllaceae [Mt. San G. in background] |
Jacumba milkvetch Astragalus douglasii var. douglasii Fabaceae |
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Burrobush, Burroweed, White bursage Ambrosia dumosa Asteraceae |
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California groundsel |
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Cream cups Platystemon californicus Papaveraceae |
California poppy Eschscholzia californica Paperveraceae |
Cupleaf ceanothus Ceanothus greggii var. perplexans Rhamnaceae |
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Emory baccharis Baccharis emoryi Asteraceae |
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Spanish needles Palafoxia arida var. arida Asteraceae [with blister beetle, Lytta stygica, family Meloidae, thanks to Hartmut Wisch for ID] |
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