Camissonia refracta (S.Watson) P.H.Raven

Harvard University, Gray Herbarium (GH)	CT?
PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA ^
Camissonia refracta (S. Watson) P.H. Raven
ONAGRACEAE
Herbs to 1ft tall, common, flowers white. Desert area low on
a rocky hillside grading into the bottom of a short, steep,
sandy arroyo, on gravelly loam to sand (“badlands” eroded
alluvium and probably Carsitas gravelly sand, 0 to 9 percent
slopes; mixed, hyperthermic Typic Torripsamments). With
Ambrosia dumosa, Aristida adscensionis, Brandegea
bigelovii, Brassica toumefortii, Camissonia claviformis,
Chaenactis carphoclinia, Cryptantha maritima, Ditaxis
lanceolata, Encelia farinosa, Eriogonum thomasii,
Eschscholzia californica, E. minutiflora, Fouquieria
splendens, Hyptis emoryi, Larrea tridentata, Lupinus
arizonicus, Mentzelia involucrata, Mohavea confertiflora,
Opuntia basilaris, Parkinsonia aculeata, Perityle emoryi,
Phacelia crenulata, Plantago ovata, Psorothamnus spinosus,
Salvia columbariae, Schismus arabicus and Senecio
mohavensis. Many of the herbaceous plants here are probably
more robust this year than most years due to an unusually
rainy winter. Plants collected in mid to late afternoon in
sunny weather with probably about 50% relative humidity and
75°F to 80°F, the air fragrant because of all of the flowering
plants. Box Canyon, along the W. side of Box Canyon Road,
around lOmi SW of the intersection with Interstate 10 and
around 0.7mi SE of Blake Hill. Riverside Co. Elev. 880ft.
33° 36’ 47"N, 115° 55' 04"W. UTM 11 600403E 3719788N
(NAD83/WGS84).
Coll. Doug Goldman #3023
3 March 2005
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