Cryptantha barbigera (Bearded Cryptantha)

4/3/11 Meccacopia Trail, Box Canyon Rd., Mecca Hills, Riverside County, CA

3/4/17 Shaver's Valley, Eastern Riverside County, CA

3/4/17 Shaver's Valley, Eastern Riverside County, CA

3/5/19 Shaver's Valley 

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Bearded Cryptantha

SPECIES: Cryptantha barbigera var. barbigera

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 4/3/2011

LOCATION: Meccacopia Trail, Box Canyon Rd., Mecca Hills, Riverside County, CA

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From Jepson e-flora Taxon Page:

Flower: calyx 5--10 mm in fruit, lobes generally spreading or recurved, generally lance-linear, margins generally dense-soft-hairy with spreading, fine bristles below middle; corolla deciduous, limb 1--2.5(3) mm diam, appendages 0 or minute, white. 

Fruit: nutlets 1--4, 1.5--2 mm. 

Ecology: Open, sandy to rocky soils, generally in creosote-bush scrub, desert woodland; 

Elevation: 15--1860(2250) m. 

Bioregional Distribution: s SN, Teh, s SnJV, s SNE, D; 

Distribution Outside California: to Utah, New Mexico, Baja California. 

Flowering Time: Feb--Jun 

eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald B. Kelley, Michael G. Simpson & Kristen E. Hasenstab-Lehman