Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the White Wash Area, Santa Rosa Mountains White Wash is a drainage in the southwestern part of the Santa Rosa Mountains. It joins Horse Canyon one mile above Turkey Track. Turkey Track is where Tule, Nance and Horse Canyons meet to form the middle section of Coyote Creek; the map view of these drainages resembler the footprint of a turkey. Turkey Track is 10 air miles southeast of the town of Anza, 5 air miles southeast of Terwilliger Valley, 7.1 miles along Coyote Canyon Road from its beginning in Terwilliger Valley.
See a map showing this location.
This webpage is just a quickly-done version made for fieldwork on 12/7/12. The next iteration will include vouchers from this area.
This list is extremely incomplete, especially for annuals and perennials, since it was made from a single field trip at the worst-possible time of year, in late fall, covering only 1.15 miles of White Wash Canyon.
The Checklist follows the 2012 Jepson Manual Second Edition with only a few exceptions.
The Checklist is sorted first by the eight evolutionary categories (clades) used in the 2012 Second Edition Jepson Manual - lycophytes, ferns, etc., to eudicots and monocots - and then by family and scientific name. The clades are labeled in the Checklist. Note that this changes the order of presentation of the taxa from that of the 1993 First Edition.
The family name is abbreviated to the first five characters in order to save space in the table rows.
A few species have qualifiers given in front of the scientific name, indicating that the species determination is not 100%. Notes on many of those species are given in the next section. (qualifiers to be added after the 12/7/12 fieldwork)
An asterisk before the Common Name indicates a non-native taxon.
The three columns under the header #Plants give a minimum estimate of the number of plants we saw along our entire survey in each area (up to a maximum of 99 plants).
The column labeled CR is uppermost Coyote Canyon Road, with species recorded at a few random stops from the crossing of Nance Creek to Turkey Track. No estimate of the number of plants was made; an X indicates we saw that species.
The column labeled HC gives an estimate of the abundance for species seen in Horse Canyon that were not seen in White Wash on 2 December 2012.
The column labeled WW gives the minimum number of plants seen in the survey of the lowermost 1.2 miles of White Wash on 2 December 2012.
The scientific name is linked to the latest online Jepson Manual description for each species, which also gives the months in which each species flowers. That link also gives a map of where the species occurs in California; a plot of elevation vs. latitude for California; and a histogram of the voucher collections by month. Only a few species will not have working links, if their names have been updated more recently (such as Mimulus diffusus, which is still listed under M. palmeri in the online flora, or if they are reserved-judgment taxa which are listed in the entry for another taxon name.
The common name for each species in the checklist is linked to Calphotos to give pictures of most taxa. Note that the link will not always return pictures, since not every species has pictures at Calphotos, and a number of species still have their Calphotos pictures under the Jepson Manual First Edition Names.
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Copyright © 2012 by Tom Chester, Mike Crouse, Kate Harper and Keir Morse. (authors listed alphabetically)
Permission is freely granted to reproduce any or all of this page as long as credit is given to us at this source:
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Comments and feedback: Tom Chester
Updated 7 December 2012.
