Eremalche exilis (A.Gray) Greene

RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN
Flora of Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.
Malvaceae
Eremalche exilis (A.Gray) E.L.Greene
MOJAVE DESERT: Black Butte Basin Road at its
intersection with Avenue 'U\ NW comer; 0.85 mile and
ca 152° SW of Three Sisters [buttes]. El Mirage USGS
7.5' Quadrangle; T5N R8W, SE/4 SE/4 SW/4 section 9.
Elevation ca 3145-3150 feet.
Open desert flat (apparently cleared at some time in
the past) with Atriplex ccutescens and mostiy herbaceous
associates; surrounding area dominated by Larrea
tridentata with scattered Yucca brevifolia.
Annual with small white corollas; scattered locally.
Timothy S. Ross 4685	27 April 1991
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