YUCCA VALLEY AND PIONEERTOWN
APRIL/MAY 2008 PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters




This is a photo gallery which includes pictures taken on two separate trips on April 24 and May 10. 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.


 
Hole-in-the-sand plant
Nicolletia occidentalis
Asteraceae
[Named for Joseph Nicholas Nicollet, 1786-1843]
 
Scalebud
Anisocoma acaulis
Asteraceae
 


   
White tidy tips
Layia glandulosa
Asteraceae
[Named for George Tradescant Lay, 1799-1844]
 
Mojave sun cup
Camissonia campestris
Onagraceae
[Named for Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso, 1781-1838
  
Desert wishbone bush
Mirabilis bigelovii var. bigelovii
Nyctaginaceae
[Named for John Milton Bigelow, 1804-1878


 
Apricot mallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua var. ambigua
Malvaceae
  
Bajada lupine
Lupinus concinnus
Fabaceae


 
 
Woolly sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum var. obovatum
Asteraceae
 
 
 
 
Grape soda lupine
Lupinus excubitus var. excubitus
Fabaceae
Engelmann's hedgehog cactus
Echinocereus engelmannii var.
engelmannii
Cactaceae
[Named for George Engelmann, 1809-1884
 
 


   
Small-seeded spurge
Chamaesyce polycarpa
Euphorbiaceae
  
Bigelow's monkeyflower
Mimulus bigelovii var. bigelovii
Scrophulariaceae
  
Pringle's woolly sunflower
Eriophyllum pringlei
Asteraceae
[Named for Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, 1838-1911
   


 
 
Pale primrose
Camissonia pallida ssp. pallida
Onagraceae
Desert larkspur
Delphinium parishii ssp. parishii
Ranunculaceae
[Named for the Parish brothers]
 


   
Fringed onion
Allium fimbriatum var. fimbriatum
Liliaceae


 
Purple mat
Nama demissum
Hydrophyllaceae
  
Woolly daisy
Eriophyllum wallacei
Asteraceae
[Named for William Allen Wallace, 1815-1893
 


 
 
Desert calico
Loeseliastrum matthewsii
Polemoniaceae
[Named for Dr. Washington Matthews, 1843-1905
 
 

Xantus pincushion
Chaenactis xantiana
Asteraceae
[named for Hungarian zoologist János Xántus, 1825-1894]

Star gilia
Gilia stellata
Polemoniaceae
[Named for Filippo Luigi Gilii, 1756-1821
   
Beavertail cactus
Opuntia basilaris var. basilaris
Cactaceae
Whispering bells
Emmenanthe penduliflora
Hydrophyllaceae


   
Wild rhubarb
Rumex hymenosepalus
Polygonaceae
  
Interior goldenbush
Ericameria linearifolia
Asteraceae


PHOTO GALLERIES
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