Most updates are only given on the main Plants Site Update Log.
30 October 2024 updated page on carex senta and c. schottii to add Tables 3 and 4.
25 October 2024 updated page on carex senta and c. schottii with more measurements.
18 October 2024 updated page on carex senta and c. schottii with measurements from nine plants of C. schottii, and a few more C. senta plants.
7 September 2024 added page on bistorta.
28 August 2024 updated carex senta / schottii page with more measurements and a plot of how well they separate.
24 August 2024 added page on Carex senta measurements, and Comparison to C. schottii.
16 July 2024 updated candy's creek lemon lily survey page to include results from the 7/14/24 survey.
16 June 2024 updated munchkin lemon lily page to include pix from 2023 and 2024.
19 May 2024 added pix of the post-burn fire follower display on the ramona trail.
3 August 2023 updated keckiella rothrockii page to add updated maps as of 1 August, that also show locations where it was not observed.
1 August 2023 updated candy's creek lemon lily census page with the results from the 7/26/23 survey.
23 May 2023 updated calochortus page to give results from iNat extending the range of C. concolor and C. palmeri munzii to higher elevations.
19 March 2023 added another possible diagnostic characteristic to mimulus microphylla / m. nasuta separation.
26 February 2023 added shoot emergence time to lemon lily fact sheet, thanks to mark reese; and plots of observed bloom times for two separate elevation ranges. added info about the lemon lily festival, and dates of them, to the "decline of lemon lilies" page.
15 December 2022 added voucher map for funastrum crispum to its main page.
13 December 2022 Added page on the Bruce Watts census of funastrum crispum.
9 November 2022 added page on funastrum crispum.
7 September 2022 added page on portulaca halimoides.
6 August 2022 updated linanthus jaegeri on devils slide trail page to include a link to the 14th plant found there on 2 August 2022.
26 July 2022 updated lemon lily fact sheet to include nearly 100% at SnGb and from Skinner's observations.
25 July 2022 a number of updates to the page giving results of lemon lily surveys in candy's creek done over a period of 11 years.
24 July 2022 added page giving results of lemon lily surveys in candy's creek done over a period of 11 years.
19 July 2022 updated lemon lily fact sheet to expand on erosion as one reason the candy's creek population is no longer a healthy one.
18 July 2022 updated grandfather lemon lily page table 1 to include deb nelson's 2016 survey. updated lemon lily fact sheet to give the latest results that the candy's creek population was no longer healthy in 2020 and 2021.
17 July 2022 updated lemon lily fact sheet to include santa rosa mountain as a location, thanks to input from rod belshee. added latest munchkin lemon lily pix to its page.
10 July 2022 updated calochortus page to finally include pix showing color variation for c. splendens, as well as more info on geographic distribution, and added the # of iNat obs to Table 1. some pix of the fruit added.
9 July 2022 added maps of geographic distribution for Linanthus jaegeri and L. pungens.
8 July 2022 updated draft of Linanthus jaegeri / L. pungens page to show plot of how well the plant height and diameter separates them, and added page showing all the L. jaegeri plants on the Devils Slide Trail.
4 July 2022 updated draft of Linanthus jaegeri / L. pungens page.
3 July 2022 added draft of Linanthus jaegeri / L. pungens page.
26 June 2022 added Calochortus invenustus Progression of Flower with Age.
25 June 2022 updated highest elevation for calochortus plummerae, from bruce watts.
23 June 2022 modified elevation ranges for calochortus species, per bruce watts; added pix showing variation in flower colors for c.p. munzii and c. plummerae.
21 June 2022 added introductory info to the calochortus page, including flower lifetime and its use as a bee's singles bar.
20 June 2022 added more pix showing color variation for c. concolor flowers, pix from bruce watts, and for c. invenustus, from bruce and me.
17 June 2022 added pix of orange calochortus concolor, and white variant of c. palmeri, to calochortus page.
12 June 2022 updated page on the munchkin lemon lily to mention species that used to be in the seep area, Veratrum and Lupinus latifolius parishii.
11 June 2022 updated page on the munchkin lemon lily to mention it and its eight siblings are probably the remnant of a larger population in that area.
9 June 2022 updated page on the munchkin lemon lily, which is back!
8 September 2021 updated page on grandfather lemon lily.
17 August 2021 added page on the grandfather lemon lily.
10 August 2021 added beginnings of a species page on chinquapin, Chrysolepis sempervirens.
30 June 2021 added species page on Garrya fremontii.
29 June 2021 updated munchkin lemon lily page with the sad news that it was not present this year.
23 March 2021 added section on roots in lemon lily fact sheet, with links to three pix showing the contractile roots.
9 March 2021 added link to plantid.net version of idyllwild park list.
8 March 2021 updated "flora of san jacinto mountain" page to clean it up and bring it a little more to date. deleted the dead link to blume's list, and moved the galium ang. jacinticum link to the species page.
27 February 2021 updated poison oak page with info from mark reese about it being in the lower part of the North Fork of the SnJt River.
9 January 2021 updated lemon lily page to make the highest elevation 9550 feet instead of 9200 feet.
3 January 2021 updated lemon lily page with a "look alike species" section.
21 December 2020 added page on our Allophyllum species.
17 December 2020 updated umbellularia page with new observations from dave stith and bruce watts.
12 December 2020 updated umbellularia page with new observations from mark reese.
3 December 2020 added umbellularia californica page, with table of all known locations, geographic maps, and elevation vs. longitude plots.
24 November 2020 added more to a. glauca page.
23 November 2020 added more to a. glauca page.
22 November 2020 added page on arctostaphylos glauca.
15 November 2020 updated ericameria cuneata page with reasoning by urbatsch to define the two varieties.
14 November 2020 updated lemon lily "fact sheet expanded" with information on the pollinator by Davis, and added other james reserve photo of a sphinx moth visiting a lemon lily.
8 November 2020 updated ericameria cuneata page with results from 11/6/20 fieldwork from the cedar spring trail.
5 November 2020 added page on ericameria cuneata varieties at SnJt.
25 October 2020 updated lemon lily fact sheet with link to similar fruit damage observed in michigan on a different lily species, found by aaron schusteff.
24 October 2020 updated lemon lily fact sheet with more info on pollinator and iNat observations nearby, and the poor fruit set this year.
23 October 2020 updated lemon lily fact sheet with demographics in SnGb, and facts_expanded with info about how critical the timing is for sphinx moths to pollinate our lilies.
20 October 2020 updates to lemon lily fact sheet: added all known occurrences of insect / bird predation of lemon lily fruit; added Known Mortality Events.
28 September 2020 added page on Symphyotrichum ascendens, long-leaved aster; and Symphyotrichum defoliatum, San Bernardino aster.
19 September 2020 added pix of munchkin lily from 2020; added "A few non-blooming plants end their growth with a whorl of leaves", from what the munchkin did in 2020.
13 September 2020 updated lemon lily fact sheet to improve the "leaves" section, by adding links to pix, the record short blooming plant with no whorls of leaves, and to discuss the flower bracts above the whorls.
10 August 2020 added the development of the embryonic leaves and bulbs for one year, from conditions in the previous year, in lemon lily fact sheet.
9 August 2020 added entry on inflorescence in lemon lily fact sheet.
7 August 2020 added page on natural deaths of lemon lilies, to show the lilies removed by stream erosion in candy's creek.
5 August 2020 added maximum number of leaves and buds determined by size of bulb, and inability to replace damaged parts, to lemon lily fact sheet.
4 August 2020 added typical number of leaves, both alternate and whorled, to lemon lily fact sheet, from observations in the field on 7/19/2012.
26 July 2020 added pix of laws junction before and seven years after the mountain fire to a new page in places of SnJt.
22 July 2020 updated lemon lily facts page to discuss a healthy vs unhealthy population in the demographics section.
3 July 2020 updated munchkin lemon lily page since it is now at least 20 years old.
25 June 2020 updated lemon lily fact sheet page to give elevations at SnJt; updated pine cove flora to include results from three trips in last two years.
26 May 2020 updated calochortus page to give the variation in the color and density of hairs for C. invenustus.
12 May 2020 correct mimulus guttatus page to say it is the corolla tube-throat that is exserted a given length, not the corolla; added dates of fires to may valley road area flora.
24 February 2020 replaced goldfields pix at top of quinn flat / kenworthy flora page with abronia pix.
4 February 2020 updated page on species reaching their southernmost limit at SnJt.
21 January 2020 added page on species reaching their southernmost limit at SnJt.
27 December 2019 updated fragrance page with introductory three paragraphs about the page including both good and bad smells.
20 December 2019 added smell of pinus jeffreyi and ponderosa to fragrant plants page.
27 November 2019 added unfinished page of fragrant species at SnJt.
10 November 2019 added photo of champion lemon lily with at least 51 flowers, from LaReina Van Sant.
21 October 2019 updated pinus ponderosa / jeffreyi distribution to include results from the 11/12/14 field survey, and to link the article in the SnGb CNPS newsletter.
15 October 2019 added sorts by elevation for our SnJt master list.
27 September 2019 updated lemon lily fact sheet with expanded info on bloom times.
22 September 2019 added page on castilleja miniata giving geographic distribution and elevation histogram.
12 September 2019 added munchkin lemon lily pix from 2019.
23 August 2019 minor update to intro for pinedrops page.
22 August 2019 added google earth views of the distribution of quercus chrysolepis and pinus lambertiana on the devils slide trail, linked so far only from the devils slide trail plant guide page.
18 August 2019 updated pinedrops page with link to inat observation that was confused with sarcodes.
17 August 2019 added page on distribution of penstemon species on the devils slide trail.
13 August 2019 updated lemon lily fact sheet with results on bulb splitting; updated page on pinedrops with more info.
12 August 2019 added page on pinedrops.
21 July 2019 updated lemon lily fact sheet with more on the time the flowers open and stay open, and info from kathy that the last flowers sometimes don't produce ovaries.
3 July 2019 added post-burn pix of oracle oak in fig. 2 on its page.
15 May 2019 added poison oak location at lawler lodge to its page.
5 April 2019 updated lemon lily fact sheet with usage of "Parry's Lily" in 1879 by Lemmon.
21 November 2018 added dave's summary about where cystopteris is found.
17 November 2018 added pix of cystopteris and woodsia, and map of cystopteris distribution.
12 September 2018 added map of species diversity from all spot surveys so far.
12 to 23 August 2018 a number of updates to lemon lily fact sheet.
11 August 2018 added lemon lily fact sheet.
10 August 2018 added geographic map of heuchera hirsutissima in round et al valleys.
30 June 2018 added photos of munchkin lemon lily from 29 june 2018.
17 May 2018 updated gilia page to include g. brecciarum^2.
29 April 2018 updated page on fireweed, and finally linked online the lemon lily census page.
28 April 2018 added page on fireweed.
16 April 2018 added page giving photographs of Ribes malvaceum.
3 March 2018 added page on helenium bigelovii.
28 November 2017 updated 2011 blooms page to correct "allium cratericola" to A. burlewii.
29 October 2017 updated endemic page to add pix of three species side by side, and to give a bit more info on the geographic distribution of the Ivesia and hidden lake bluecurls.
7 October 2017 added page on hieracium albiflorum and h. horridum.
11 September 2017 updated flora of Tamarack, Round and Long Valleys and Higher Elevations to combine the epilobium ciliatum taxa; improve the abundances in different areas by reviewing the gps point data; rounding the elevations to the nearest 10 feet; and adding some of the info to be supplied later about these species.
4 September 2017 added latest version of Flora of Tamarack, Round and Long Valleys and Higher Elevations that now includes the max and min elevations, and # of GPS points, including links to sorts by max elevation and # of GPS points.
25 August 2017 added section on species diversity to Overview of Geographic Distribution Maps for Species of Tamarack, Round and Long Valleys and Higher Elevations.
6 August 2017 added festuca rubra to list of new species for SnJt from our surveys.
2 August 2017 added breakdown of species gps points by elevation to Overview of Geographic Distribution Maps for Tamarack, Round and Long Valleys.
1 August 2017 added Overview of Geographic Distribution Maps for Tamarack, Round and Long Valleys and Higher Elevations, showing Pinaceae species there, and a separate page for mimulus.
21 July 2017 updated link to uc voucher scan on the page on the misdetermined voucher of "phantom orchid".
15 July 2017 added page on the misdetermined voucher of "phantom orchid".
28 June 2017 added pix of mimulus floribundus and m. suksdorfii online.
22 June 2017 added this year's photo of the munchkin lemon lily by bruce watts.
4 June 2017 added section on how to discriminate D. parryi and D. patens at SnJt.
30 May 2017 added map of good locations for our two blue delphinium species found west of the desert divide.
6 October 2016 updated endemic page to be more explicit about SnJt and SnRsMtns for a few taxa.
24 September 2014 improved links on yellow pine pages to refer to each of the other pages.
30 August 2014 created main San Jacinto Page and this update log, made new page on the Roach Sawmill in Dark Canyon.
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