Camissonia campestris (Mojave Suncup)

 4/21/01 Dirt track to Cinder Cones off Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve 

(East Mojave), San Bernardino County, CA

 3/22/03 Hagen Canyon Nature Trail, Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County, CA

 5/10/03 Avenue T at 116th Street, Jackrabbit Flat Wildlife Preserve,

Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, CA

5/10/03 Jackrabbit Flat

5/10/03 N-6 (Fort Tejon Road), north of Devil's Punchbowl (N. San Gabriel Mountains), 

Los Angeles County, CA

4/3/17 Ricardo Campground, Red Rock Canyon State Park,
Kern County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Mojave Suncup

SPECIES: Camissonia campestris

FAMILY: Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 4/21/2001

LOCATION: Dirt track to Cinder Cones off Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve (East Mojave), San Bernardino County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual, slender; rosette generally ± 0; hairs 0, coarse, or glandular

Stem decumbent or erect, 5–25(50) cm, peeling

Leaf 5–30 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate, minutely to coarsely serrate
Inflorescence nodding

Flower: hypanthium 1.5–5 mm; sepals 3–8(12) mm, remaining adherent in pairs; petals (3.5)5–15 mm, yellow fading reddish, base with (1)2 red dots; stigma exceeding anthers

Fruit 20–43 mm, 0.7–2 mm wide, cylindric, alternately narrow and swollen by seeds, straight or wavy, sub sessile

Seeds in 1 row per chamber, 0.8–1.6 mm, shiny, minutely pitted

Ecology: Open sandy flats, desert scrub, non coastal grasslands

Elevation: 0–2000 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Sierra Nevada Foothills, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, e Southwestern California, Mojave Desert