Introduction Flora of the Mt. Wilson Trail, San Gabriel Mountains
Species Notes
The FloraIntroduction
This flora is for the Mt. Wilson Trail from its southern end in Sierra Madre to its northern end at Mt. Wilson, including the branch that goes through First Water and the helipad. For a map of the trail, and a good description, with abundant pictures, see Drew Robinson's Hiking Mt. Wilson Trail To The Mt. Wilson Observatory via Sierra Madre.
This flora was made from a voucher search of the Consortium of California Herbaria on 10 May 2018; a field trip by Tom Chester and Michael Charters on 27 January 2005 of the lowest 1.5 miles; and numerous field trips by Michael Charters from 2005 to 2018. This flora includes some of the species found along the trail in the residential section at the southern end, some of which may have been planted at the trail environs.
Vouchers. A geographic coordinate search, for vouchers with coordinates, was made for the region of 34.16 to 34.23° north latitude and -118.07 to -118.04° east longitude. No separate search was made for non-georeferenced vouchers. Vouchers not georeferenced in the vicinity of the Mt. Wilson Trail itself were tossed. The locality was examined for the remaining vouchers, and only vouchers with localities that placed them on the Trail were kept. A few species came from vouchers whose locality just said summit of Mt. Wilson, and have been retained on the list for now. They will be removed in the future if they are not found on the trail.
Photographs. For pictures of all the species photographed by Michael Charters, see Flora of the Mt. Wilson Trail: A Slide Show and Michael's Plant List that has direct links to his pictures for each species. Links will eventually be added to this flora directly to Michael's photographs.
See also these photo galleries by Michael from individual trips:
- The Mt. Wilson Trail Before and After the Fire of April, 2008 from June 2008
- Mt. Wilson Trail to Mt. Wilson, September 2008.
- Mt. Wilson Trail to First Water, February 2010.
- Mt. Wilson Trail to Jones Peak and Bailey Canyon, May 2018.
- Mt. Wilson Trail Spring 2018
Species Notes
The Phacelia imbricata plants in the San Gabriel Mountains do not perfectly fit either subspecies or variety. The expert, Lawrence R. Heckard, placed these mostly into his "intergrade group I" in his 1960 monograph (Univ. Calif. Publ. Botany 32:1-126), with some in his "intergrade group III", and wrote:
In all three groups the narrow calyx lobe is present and is important owing to the association of this character as a regular feature (and key character) of ssp. patula. The plants of group I are largely like those of ssp. imbricata in other characteristics.The plants of group III show the greatest similarity to ssp. patula. These could be arranged in a morphological series showing a gradual transition from the somewhat reduced and slender plants of ssp. imbricata of the Mt. Pinos area to plants of the San Gabriel Mountains intermediate between ssp. imbricata and ssp. patula.
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The Flora
This flora contains 295 taxa as of 26 May 2018. Of those 295:
- 228 taxa were observed by Michael. Of those, 224 have confident determinations and 4 have tentative determinations. 100 of those 228 taxa were also vouchered.
- 58 taxa have been vouchered but not yet seen by Michael on the trail. Some of those vouchered species may not actually be from the trail itself, due to vague locations or voucher misdeterminations.
- 5 taxa were seen in the 27 January 2005 survey, but have not been photographed by Michael.
- 3 taxa were from iNaturalist observations, not present in vouchers or our observations.
- 1 taxon, Cryptantha muricata var. jonesii, was included in the list because of the possibility it occurs here. It will be removed if not found in future surveys.
See:
- Notes on the Scientific Names Used At This Site and
- Information about the order in which the species are presented, and the links from the Scientific Name and Common Name.
An asterisk before the common name indicates a non-native species.
The family name is abbreviated to the first three characters in order to save space in the table rows.
The column with header #V gives the number of vouchers for Trail, truncated at a maximum number of nine. If the column contains iNat, it indicates a species from iNaturalist that was not vouchered, nor seen by Michael Charters.
The column with header MC indicates a species photographed by Michael Charters.
Species with no entry in either column are from the field survey on 27 January 2005, except for Cryptantha muricata var. jonesii, as mentioned above.
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Voucher data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria (ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/) on 10 May 2018.
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