Plants in bloom from First Crossing to Lower Willows, 3 January 2008

See trip report for the route on which these plants were found in bloom.

#	Family	Latin Name	(*)Common Name	# of Plants in Bloom
1	Acanthaceae	Justicia californica	chuparosa	5
2	Asteraceae	Ambrosia dumosa	burroweed	10
3	Asteraceae	Baccharis salicifolia	mule fat	5
4	Asteraceae	Bebbia juncea var. aspera	sweetbush	5
5	Asteraceae	Chrysothamnus paniculatus	blackbanded rabbitbrush	20
6	Asteraceae	Dicoria canescens	desert dicoria	20
7	Asteraceae	Encelia farinosa	brittlebush	10
8	Asteraceae	Encelia frutescens	button encelia	1
9	Asteraceae	Gnaphalium luteo-album	*common cudweed	5
10	Asteraceae	Isocoma acradenia var. eremophila	solitary-leaved alkali goldenbush	1
11	Asteraceae	Palafoxia arida var. arida	desert needle	20
12	Asteraceae	Perityle emoryi	Emory's rock-daisy	1
13	Asteraceae	Pluchea sericea	arrow-weed	1
14	Asteraceae	Sonchus oleraceus	*sow thistle	10
15	Asteraceae	Stephanomeria pauciflora var. pauciflora	wire-lettuce	20
16	Brassicaceae	Brassica tournefortii	*Asian mustard	1
17	Brassicaceae	Dithyrea californica	spectacle-pod	1
18	Brassicaceae	Sisymbrium irio	*London rocket	10
19	Brassicaceae	Sisymbrium orientale	*Oriental mustard	10
20	Cuscutaceae	Cuscuta californica var. papillosa	papillate dodder	1
21	Euphorbiaceae	Croton californicus	California croton	20
22	Fabaceae	Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana	honey mesquite	2
23	Fabaceae	Psorothamnus emoryi	Emory's indigo-bush	20
24	Fabaceae	Psorothamnus schottii	indigo bush	1
25	Fouquieriaceae	Fouquieria splendens ssp. splendens	ocotillo	10
26	Geraniaceae	Erodium cicutarium	*redstem filaree	1
27	Krameriaceae	Krameria grayi	white rhatany	1
28	Lamiaceae	Hyptis emoryi	desert lavender	2
29	Malvaceae	Sphaeralcea ambigua var. ambigua	apricot mallow	1
30	Malvaceae	Sphaeralcea ambigua var. rosacea	rosy apricot mallow	1
31	Zygophyllaceae	Larrea tridentata	creosote bush	1
32	Poaceae	Leptochloa uninervia	Mexican sprangletop	20

* non-native species

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