Cryptantha barbigera var. barbigera (A. Gray) Greene
Boraginaceae
A.C. Sanders
42343
2016-03-17
Jim Malusa
United States, California, Imperial, Chuckwalla Bench just inside Chocolate Mountains Aerial Gunnery Range, along old Niland-Blythe Rd. 1.2 km east of Surveyors Pass
33.40975 -115.27293 +-100m.
33° 24.585m N; 115° 16.376m W
Augustine Pass 7.5’ Q.
629 metros
2064ft.
Rolling terrain cut by washes; silty basin where wash blocked by roadbed, sandy-gravelly elsewhere; formerly ponded area above road with dense herbs and shrubs including Cylindropuntia munzii, Yucca schidigera, Lycium andersonii, Larrea, Hilaria rigida, Senegalia, Hyptis.
Fairly common ann. at edge of shrub clumps in basin; fls. white.