Flora of Box Canyon above Third Crossing of Coyote Creek

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Introduction
Field Surveys
Checklist

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Introduction

This is a flora of the Box Canyon that is just north of the Third Crossing of Coyote Creek, not the Box Canyon between Blair Valley and Mason Valley. Although the hike up Box Canyon begins at Third Crossing, the floral area does not include the species seen along Coyote Creek or in its immediate vicinity. For those species, see Flora of Coyote Creek First to Third Crossing Area.

This flora is made entirely from our field surveys, since there is only a single voucher from Box Canyon, of Acmispon rigidus. There are three other vouchers incorrectly georeferenced here, two from the San Jacinto Mountains and one from the other Box Canyon.

Field Surveys

11 February 2009. A survey of lower Box Canyon by Tom Chester, Mike Crouse, Michael Charters and Bill Sullivan.

17 February 2009. A survey of lower Box Canyon by Tom Chester, James Dillane, Mike Crouse, and Lolly Crouse.

25 November 2009. A survey from Box Canyon to halfway to Butler Canyon along the old Indian Trail by Tom Chester, James Dillane, RT Hawke, Bill Sullivan and Pam Pallette.

10 December 2017. A loop survey of the two main branches of Box Canyon by Carla Hoegen and Fred Melgert.

18 December 2017. A survey of the lowermost two miles of Box Canyon by Tom Chester, Walt Fidler, and Nancy Accola.

22 December 2017. A survey of the first 1.5 miles of the eastern branch of Box Canyon by Tom Chester, Walt Fidler, RT Hawke, Shaun Hawke, Don Rideout, and Nancy Accola.

22 December 2017. A survey of a 9.8 mile loop in Box Canyon to the divide with Butler Canyon by Carla Hoegen and Fred Melgert.

4 January 2018. A survey of mile 2 to mile 4 of the western branch of Box Canyon by Tom Chester, Nancy Accola and Ted Caragozian.

For more information, and abundant photographs, see:

• Michael Charters' Photo Gallery from 11 February 2009.

• Fred Melgert and Carla Hoegen's Anza-Borrego Desert: Box Canyon East Fork Loop (pictures from 23 March 2013).

• Fred Melgert and Carla Hoegen's Anza-Borrego Desert: Box Canyon second fork loop (pictures from 10 December 2017).

Checklist for Box Canyon

See also Carla Hoegen and Fred Melgert's plant list for this area that contains information about when a given species was observed, and whether it was blooming or not.

See:

• Notes on the Scientific Names Used At This Site and
• Information about the links from the Scientific Name and Common Name.

An asterisk before the common name indicates a non-native species.

The column labeled #Pls gives a minimum estimate of the number of plants. Non-numeric entries are for species for which no abundance estimate was made. A FC in this column indicates a species observed by Fred Melgert and Carla Hoegen.

The following species are found only along Coyote Creek and thus are omitted from the checklist:

• Baccharis salicifolia ssp. salicifolia, mule fat
• Pluchea sericea, arrow-weed
• Sisymbrium irio, London rocket
• Tamarix ramosissima, saltcedar

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#	Fam	Scientific Name Link goes to the Jepson eflora	(*)Common Name Link goes to Calphotos	#Pls
Lycopods
1	Sel	Selaginella eremophila	desert spike-moss	20
Ferns
2	Pte	Cheilanthes parryi	woolly lipfern	99
Gymnosperms
3	Eph	Ephedra aspera	Mormon tea	35
4	Eph	Ephedra californica	desert tea	99
Eudicots
5	Aca	Justicia californica	chuparosa	99
6	Ama	Amaranthus fimbriatus	fringed amaranth	55
7	Apo	Funastrum hirtellum	rambling milkweed	99
8	Apo	Matelea parvifolia	spearleaf	1
9	Ast	Adenophyllum porophylloides	San Felipe dogweed	25
10	Ast	Ambrosia dumosa	burroweed	99
11	Ast	Ambrosia salsola var. salsola	cheesebush	99
12	Ast	Baccharis brachyphylla	short-leaved baccharis	30
13	Ast	Bahiopsis parishii	Parish's goldeneye	99
14	Ast	Bebbia juncea var. aspera	sweetbush	99
15	Ast	Brickellia desertorum	desert brickellia	50
16	Ast	Chaenactis fremontii	Fremont pincushion	50
17	Ast	Encelia farinosa	brittlebush	99
18	Ast	Ericameria paniculata	blackbanded rabbitbrush	50
19	Ast	Gutierrezia sarothrae	matchweed	40
20	Ast	Logfia filaginoides	California filago	20
21	Ast	Malacothrix glabrata	desert dandelion	99
22	Ast	Palafoxia arida var. arida	Spanish needle	20
23	Ast	Pectis papposa var. papposa	chinch-weed	99
24	Ast	Perityle emoryi	Emory's rock-daisy	99
25	Ast	Pleurocoronis pluriseta	arrow-leaf	99
26	Ast	Porophyllum gracile	odora	40
27	Ast	Rafinesquia neomexicana	desert chicory	20
28	Ast	Senecio mohavensis	Mojave ragwort	24
29	Ast	Sonchus oleraceus	*sow thistle	~1
30	Ast	Stephanomeria exigua ssp. exigua	slender wreathplant	30
31	Ast	Stephanomeria pauciflora	wire-lettuce	70
32	Ast	Trixis californica var. californica	California trixis	85
33	Bor	Amsinckia intermedia	common fiddleneck	~2
34	Bor	Cryptantha angustifolia	narrow-leaved cryptantha	99
35	Bor	Cryptantha barbigera var. barbigera	bearded cryptantha	~2
36	Bor	Cryptantha maritima	Guadalupe cryptantha	4
37	Bor	Cryptantha pterocarya	wing-nut cryptantha	1
38	Bor	Cryptantha racemosa	bushy cryptantha	2
39	Bor	Emmenanthe penduliflora var. penduliflora	whispering bells	2
40	Bor	Pectocarya recurvata	curvenut combseed	99
41	Bor	Phacelia campanularia ssp. campanularia	desert bluebells	10
42	Bor	Phacelia crenulata	heliotrope phacelia	25
43	Bor	Phacelia distans	common phacelia	99
44	Bor	Tiquilia canescens var. canescens	gray coldenia	40
45	Bra	Brassica tournefortii	*Sahara mustard	99
46	Bra	Caulanthus hallii	Hall's caulanthus	3
47	Bra	Descurainia pinnata	western tansy-mustard	50
48	Bra	Lepidium lasiocarpum ssp. lasiocarpum	hairy-podded pepper-grass	99
49	Bra	Thysanocarpus curvipes	fringe-pod	1
50	Cac	Cylindropuntia bigelovii	teddy-bear cholla	99
51	Cac	Cylindropuntia ganderi	Gander's cholla	99
52	Cac	Echinocereus engelmannii	Engelmann's hedgehog cactus	36
53	Cac	Ferocactus cylindraceus	California barrel cactus	99
54	Cac	Mammillaria dioica	California fish-hook cactus	11
55	Cac	Opuntia basilaris var. basilaris	beavertail cactus	99
56	Car	Achyronychia cooperi	frost mat	FC
57	Cle	Peritoma arborea var. angustata	desert bladderpod	50
58	Cra	Dudleya arizonica	Arizona chalk dudleya	7
59	Cra	Dudleya saxosa ssp. aloides	desert dudleya	5
60	Eup	Bernardia incana	western bernardia	FC
61	Eup	Chamaesyce albomarginata	rattlesnake weed	FC
62	Eup	Chamaesyce arizonica	Arizona spurge	2
63	Eup	Chamaesyce micromera	Sonoran spurge	30
64	Eup	Chamaesyce polycarpa	small-seeded spurge	40
65	Eup	Chamaesyce setiloba	starfish (Yuma) spurge	99
66	Eup	Ditaxis lanceolata	narrowleaf ditaxis	99
67	Eup	Ditaxis neomexicana	New Mexico ditaxis	2
68	Eup	Euphorbia eriantha	beetle spurge	32
69	Eup	Stillingia linearifolia	linear-leaved stillingia	30
70	Fab	Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus	short-bannered coastal lotus	2
71	Fab	Acmispon rigidus	desert lotus	15
72	Fab	Lupinus arizonicus	Arizona lupine	99
73	Fab	Lupinus concinnus	bajada lupine	2
74	Fab	Marina parryi	Parry's marina	1
75	Fab	Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana	honey mesquite	5
76	Fab	Psorothamnus emoryi	Emory's indigo-bush	4
77	Fab	Psorothamnus schottii	indigo bush	80
78	Fab	Psorothamnus spinosus	smoke tree	40
79	Fab	Senegalia greggii	catclaw	99
80	Fou	Fouquieria splendens ssp. splendens	ocotillo	99
81	Ger	Erodium cicutarium	*redstem filaree	99
82	Ger	Erodium texanum	Texas filaree	10
83	Kra	Krameria bicolor	white rhatany	60
84	Kra	Krameria erecta	Pima rhatany	2
85	Lam	Hyptis emoryi	desert-lavender	99
86	Lam	Salvia columbariae	chia	99
87	Lam	Salvia eremostachya	desert sage	3
88	Lam	Salvia vaseyi	Vasey's sage	25
89	Loa	Petalonyx thurberi ssp. thurberi	Thurber's sandpaper-plant	FC
90	Mal	Ayenia compacta	ayenia	25
91	Mal	Hibiscus denudatus	rock hibiscus	20
92	Mal	Sphaeralcea ambigua var. ambigua	apricot mallow	8
93	Mal	Sphaeralcea angustifolia	copper globemallow	~FC
94	Mol	Mollugo cerviana	*carpet-weed	99
95	Nyc	Abronia villosa var. villosa	hairy sand-verbena	FC
96	Nyc	Allionia incarnata var. incarnata	small-flowered trailing four o'clock	99
97	Nyc	Boerhavia coccinea	scarlet spiderling	6
98	Nyc	Boerhavia triquetra var. intermedia	fivewing spiderling	99
99	Nyc	Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa	Bigelow's desert four-o'clock	99
100	Ona	Camissoniopsis pallida ssp. pallida	pale suncup	1
101	Ona	Chylismia cardiophylla ssp. cardiophylla	heartleaf suncup	80
102	Ona	Chylismia claviformis ssp. peirsonii	brown-eyed primrose	99
103	Ona	Eremothera boothii ssp. condensata	Booth's evening primrose	4
104	Ona	Eulobus californicus	California suncup	99
105	Pap	Eschscholzia minutiflora ssp. minutiflora	small-flowered poppy	50
106	Pap	Eschscholzia parishii	Parish's poppy	50
107	Phr	Mimulus bigelovii var. bigelovii	Bigelow's monkeyflower	10
108	Pla	Plantago ovata	desert plantain	99
109	Pla	Plantago patagonica	Patagonia plantain	3
110	Pol	Aliciella latifolia ssp. latifolia	broad-leaf gilia	6
111	Pol	Eriastrum eremicum ssp. eremicum	desert woolly-star	99
112	Pol	Loeseliastrum matthewsii	desert calico	~3
113	Pol	Chorizanthe brevicornu var. brevicornu	brittle spineflower	90
114	Pol	Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium	California buckwheat	99
115	Pol	Eriogonum inflatum	desert trumpet	35
116	Pol	Eriogonum thomasii	Thomas' buckwheat	35
117	Pol	Eriogonum wrightii var. nodosum	Wright's buckwheat	99
118	Pol	Pterostegia drymarioides	fairy bowties, threadstem	5
119	Ran	Delphinium parishii ssp. subglobosum	intermediate larkspur	10
120	Ros	Coleogyne ramosissima	black brush	30
121	Ros	Prunus fremontii	desert apricot	25
122	Rub	Galium stellatum	star-flowered bedstraw	55
123	Rut	Thamnosma montana	turpentine broom	15
124	Sim	Simmondsia chinensis	jojoba	75
125	Sol	Datura discolor	desert thornapple	5
126	Sol	Datura wrightii	sacred datura	FC
127	Sol	Lycium andersonii	Anderson's boxthorn	39
128	Sol	Lycium fremontii	Fremont's boxthorn	7
129	Sol	Nicotiana obtusifolia	desert tobacco	30
130	Sol	Physalis crassifolia	thick-leaved ground cherry	99
131	Vis	Phoradendron californicum	desert mistletoe	99
132	Zyg	Fagonia laevis	California fagonia	60
133	Zyg	Kallstroemia californica	California caltrop	15
134	Zyg	Larrea tridentata	creosote bush	99
Monocots
135	Aga	Agave deserti var. deserti	desert agave	99
136	Aga	Yucca schidigera	Mohave yucca	50
137	Poa	Aristida adscensionis	six-weeks three-awn	25
138	Poa	Aristida purpurea	purple three-awn	7
139	Poa	Bouteloua aristidoides var. aristidoides	needle grama	70
140	Poa	Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens	*red brome	99
141	Poa	Dasyochloa pulchella	fluff grass	3
142	Poa	Hilaria rigida	big galleta	99
143	Poa	Muhlenbergia microsperma	littleseed muhly	2
144	Poa	Pennisetum setaceum	*fountain grass	4
145	Poa	Schismus barbatus	*Mediterranean schismus	99
146	Poa	Stipa speciosa	desert needlegrass	5?
147	The	Muilla maritima	muilla	10

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