Flora of Table Mountain, San Gabriel Mountains

Fig. 1. Two species found in the San Gabriel Mountains only on the carbonate rocks at Table Mountain, or also only in the immediately-adjacent Blue Ridge. Both species are widespread outside of the San Gabriel Mountains. Left: Gutierrezia microcephala, sticky snakeweed, photo taken by Tom Chester on 23 August 2013 just east of the west summit of Table Mountain. In the San Gabriels, this species is confined to the carbonate rocks at Table Mountain. Right: Phlox diffusa, spreading phlox, photo taken by Michael Charters on 13 July 2015 just west of the lower parking area on Table Mountain Road. This species is found on the carbonate rocks at Table Mountain, but also has a few localities on the north side of the Blue Ridge immediately south of Table Mountain. Click on the pictures for larger versions.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Botanical Highlights
SnGb Geographic Distribution Maps for Table Mountain Species
Species Notes
The Flora
Target Species Found in Nearby Areas

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Introduction

Table Mountain is an unusual place in the San Gabriel Mountains, since it is a high-elevation terrain on the other side of the San Andreas Fault from the rest of the San Gabriel Mountains. Most of the San Gabriel Mountains belongs to the Pacific plate, consisting of highly-fractured plutonic and metamorphic bedrock transported on the southwest side of the San Andreas Fault from roughly the Salton Sea area, over one hundred miles to the southeast of its current location. In contrast, Table Mountain is a piece of the Mojave Desert province of the North American Plate that has been mostly uplifted in place by vertical movement along the San Andreas Fault, making it similar in origin to the northern part of the San Bernardino Mountains that are also on the north side of the San Andreas Fault. In fact, recent evidence shows that the exposed Holcomb Ridge - Table Mountain rocks were formerly south of the same rocks in the western San Bernardino Mountains that are about 17 miles to the east, that were displaced along the Cajon Valley Fault prior to the presence of the San Andreas Fault in this area (see Fig. 5 and stop #A5 in Geology and Hydrology in the Eastern San Gabriel Mountains).

Table Mountain consists of plutonic rocks and gneiss that includes some carbonate rocks that support some plant species not found elsewhere in the San Gabriel Mountains, or have a very limited distribution elsewhere in the San Gabriels (see below).

Table Mountain is in the extreme northeast portion of the San Gabriel Mountains. We define the Table Mountain floristic area extending from Mescal Creek on the west to Sheep Creek on the east, north of the San Andreas Fault in the Wrightwood / Swarthout Valley, and south of the alluvial deposits in the Mojave Desert; see topo map.

This checklist is from six field surveys and from vouchers.

Field Surveys

• The first survey was made at a non-optimal time of year on 23 August 2013 by Adrienne Ballwey, Michael Charters, Tom Chester, James Dillane, RT and Shaun Hawke, and Jane Tirrell. We first surveyed a bit of the area immediately west of the lower parking area on Table Mountain Road. The route was then from the upper parking lot on Table Mountain Road, the Mountain High North Resort (labeled Ski Sunrise on the topo map) parking area, along the road to the JPL Table Mountain Observatory (labeled Smithsonian Observatory on the topo map), and then back 4N21 to the lower parking area.

• The second survey was done at a slightly-more-optimal time, on 13 July 2015 by Nancy Accola, Michael Charters, and Tom Chester, essentially repeating the 23 August 2013 route.

• The third survey was done on 7 August 2015 by Nancy Accola, Michael Charters, Tom Chester and James Dillane. The route was continuing north on 4N21 past the main ridgeline to the east peak (7473') and back via the jeep road.

• The fourth survey was done on 26 August 2015 by Tom Chester, RT Hawke and Shaun Hawke. The route was the trail on the east side of the Table Mountain Campground, then 4N04 to the 6678 foot peak on the north ridge of Table Mountain, and then back through the Campground.

• The fifth survey was done shortly after the fourth survey by RT and Shaun Hawke, continuing west on 4N03 to the westernmost mesa of Table Mountain.

• The sixth survey was done on 1 September 2015 by Tom Chester, RT Hawke, Nancy Accola, James Dillane, and Keir Morse. The route was from the lower parking area along Table Mountain Road east along 4N21 to the access road to the east peak (7473') and then along the trail to the east to a saddle above Wrightwood.

Fig. 2 shows the first four routes that have been surveyed by us (not yet including our last two surveys), along with voucher locations from Dick Swinney. Other vouchers do not have accurate locations, so cannot be reliably plotted on this map. Note that the surveyed and vouchered locations are a very small part of the entire Table Mountain area, and hence this species list is certainly quite incomplete for the entire area. The checklist is much more complete for the upper elevations of Table Mountain, but undoubtedly is still somewhat complete since no surveys have been done at prime time in a good rainfall year.

Fig. 2. Survey locations (colored lines) and Swinney voucher locations (blue diamonds). Click on the figure for a larger version.

See Michael Charters' Flowering Plants of Table Mountain for photographs from his field visits there on 7/26/09, 8/23/13, 7/2/15, 7/6/15 and 7/13/15. All species seen by him are also in the checklist below. The Checklist below contains a link to the specific page in Michael Charters' Photo Gallery of Table Mountain for species with a photo in that gallery.

Vouchers

Vouchers were searched for the locality of Table Mountain in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties on 20 August 2013. All vouchers appeared to be from Table Mountain itself.

The dominant collector by far was R.G. Swinney, who collected 271 of the 436 vouchers, an amazing 62% of all the vouchers. Without his collections, the flora given on this page would be very incomplete. The second most-prolific collector was R.F. Thorne, who was listed as a collector or co-collector on 76 vouchers, 17% of the total.

Vouchers determined only to the family or genus were rejected. Vouchers determined just to the species were placed within a vouchered subspecies if there was only one.

Checklist numbers

The checklist contains 233 taxa, 191 of which were observed in our surveys and 142 were vouchered from here.

Previous versions of this checklist contained additiona taxa vouchered from nearby areas (Circle Mountain or Pinyon Ridge above 6000 feet), to make the list more complete for future fieldwork. After a field trip at prime time on 10 June 2016, those additional taxa were deleted from the list so that the checklist would more accurately reflect the flora of Table Mountain itself.

Botanical Highlights

Table Mountain is an unusual place for several reasons:

• There are no lycophytes or ferns recorded from there at all!

• It contains fairly extensive exposures of carbonate rocks, mostly dolomite, and thus contains some species not seen elsewhere in the San Gabriel Mountains, such as Gutierrezia microcephala and Euphorbia lurida, and other species that have only a small number of plants found elsewhere there, such as Phlox diffusa. All of these three species are found more widely outside the San Gabriel Mountains; this just happens to be their only location in the San Gabriel Mountains.

  It is often the case that species at the edge of their range are found on unusual soil types where they have a competitive advantage over the typical species in that area; see Kruckeberg 2006, Introduction to California Soils and Plants.

  Other species that are mostly or entirely confined to the carbonate rocks here, but which are also found in other locations in the San Gabriel Mountains, are:

  • Acmispon procumbens var. procumbens, which is also found in a number of places on the desert edge of the San Gabriel Mountains.

  • Astragalus bicristatus, which is also found less abundantly off the carbonate rocks here, and also in the Big Pines - Wrightwood area, the Prairie Fork - Guffy Camp area, and the Ontario Peak area. This species only lives in this area of the San Gabriel Mountains, the eastern part of the San Bernardino Mountains, and a small area near Santa Rosa Mountain.

  • Astragalus leucolobus, which is also found less abundantly off the carbonate rocks here, and also in the Big Pines - Wrightwood area. The home of this species is the northeastern San Bernardino Mountains, and it is also found less abundantly in a small area near Santa Rosa Mountain, and a handful of scattered locations on the north and west edges of the Mojave Desert.

  • Eremogone macradenia var. arcuifolia, which is also found in the Mt. Gleason - Mt. Pacifico region, the Soledad Canyon - Palmdale region, and the desert edge of the Liebre Mountains.

  • Eriogonum microthecum, found only on the carbonate rocks here, which is also found in the Kratka Ridge area, Mt. Baldy peak area, and the Cucamonga Peak area. This is a widespread species in the higher elevation desert areas. Our plants are supposedly var. johnstonii, confined to the eastern San Gabriel Mountains and western San Bernardino Mountains, but every plant we've ever seen has white hairs on the stem, which key them to var. simpsonii.

  • Penstemon speciosus, also found off the carbonate rocks here as well from Big Pines to Wrightwood, and very abundantly to the north of the San Gabriel Mountains.

  In addition, the only location of Opuntia phaeacantha was on the carbonate rocks on the west peak, but it may just have liked that location, rather than the rocks, since it is found off-carbonate elsewhere in the San Gabriel Mountains.

• We have only found two moist / riparian areas in our surveys so far:

  • A single small area just below 4N21 where it crosses the drainage southwest of the east peak, peak 7473.

  • A more extensive riparian area on the southeast branch of Jesus Canyon along 4N04.

  All the other drainages along our surveys have been dry and devoid of moist-area species.

SnGb Geographic Distribution Maps for Table Mountain Species

Tom was struck by finding a number of species at Table Mountain that he had not seen elsewhere in the San Gabriel Mountains. He began a project to take the species found at Table Mountain, and examine their geographic distribution in the San Gabriel Mountains. This project was begun on 16 September 2015, and is currently quite incomplete. Nonetheless, some of the distribution maps produced are already quite interesting, with a set of species found only on the north edge of the San Gabriel Mountains, and some found only on the northeast edge.

See SnGb Geographic Distribution Maps for Species Found at Table Mountain.

Species Notes

• Two taxa vouchered from nearby areas, Encelia actoni and Eriogonum umbellatum var. subaridum, were not added to the list, since we judged they would at best be found at the base of Table Mountain.

  There are a huge number of plants of Eriogonum umbellatum var. munzii present at Table Mountain; it is one of the dominant species, sometimes forming dense fields of plants. Var. subaridum is a distinct shrub, with woody stems at base, found so far by us only in areas also inhabited by Yucca brevifolia in the lower-elevation Sheep Creek area on the east side of Table Mountain. It is possible that var. subaridum accompanies the Yucca brevifolia on the eastern end of Table Mountain above Sheep Creek, but we haven't yet observed var. subaridum at Table Mountain itself.

  We note that a number of vouchers determined as Eriogonum umbellatum var. subaridum from areas of the San Gabriels above the Yucca breviolia habitat are actually var. munzii. Vouchers of these two varieties are quite difficult to determine properly, since the key to distinguish them is ambiguous and vouchers rarely are of the entire plant.

• Two vouchered taxa, Lupinus albifrons var. albifrons and Astragalus douglasii var. parishii, were rejected as almost-certain misdeterminations.

• There are probably other taxa in the checklist that are misdeterminations as well, such as Phacelia egena, which we plan on deleting in the next version of the checklist.

  The Phacelia plants that are like P. egena and P. imbricata in this area appear to be quite uniform, and are clearly P. imbricata, from the few lobes on the leaves and the cylindric corolla. However, they are not clearly a subspecies of P. imbricata, since they combine traits of ssp. imbricata and ssp. patula.

  Heckard, in his marvelous 1960 monograph on this group of Phacelia species, calls them "intergrade group 1", which contains most of the plants at SnGb from 3000 to 7000 feet:

  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. p. 43.

• A surprisingly large number of duplicate vouchers have different determinations for each set, implying that at least one of the determinations is incorrect. These usually are of taxa which are difficult to separate, or which need more taxonomic work done on them, so care should be taken on any field or specimen identification for these taxa. They are given in Table 1, with the determination as the one on the voucher, not necessarily the 1993 Jepson Manual scientific name given in the Checklist.

  In fact, a very interesting project would be to compile all the different duplicate voucher determinations for all southern California species, and make a list of the frequency of occurrence for each species, and the species which is most frequently its counterpart on the duplicate vouchers. That would probably give a pretty good list of pairs of taxa that need further taxonomic work to see if they are actually separate taxa, and if so, how best to separate them.

  Table 1. Duplicate Vouchers with different determinations within each set

  Collector and #	Voucher	Voucher determination
  Swinney 4730	UCR97328	Gilia modocensis
  	RSA599718	Gilia sinuata
  Swinney 4735	RSA599717	Gilia brecciarum subsp. brecciarum
  	UCR97329	Gilia modocensis
  Swinney 4865	UCR97628	Phacelia curvipes
  	RSA718986	Phacelia davidsonii
  Swinney 5592	UCR181318	Castilleja angustifolia
  	RSA733159	Castilleja applegatei subsp. martinii
  Swinney 5686	RSA719592	Gutierrezia microcephala
  	UCR182477	Gutierrezia sarothrae
  Swinney 5760	UCR182848	Gayophytum diffusum subsp. parviflorum
  	RSA719114	Gayophytum heterozygum
  Swinney 5764	RSA719111	Eriogonum baileyi var. baileyi
  	UCR182851	Eriogonum davidsonii
  Swinney 6235	RSA729646	Stipa occidentalis var. pubescens
  	UCR190910	Stipa thurberiana
  Swinney 6237	UCR190900	Arabis holboellii
  	RSA729644	Boechera pulchra
  Swinney 6248	UCR190915	Phlox austromontana
  	RSA729650	Phlox diffusa
  Swinney 6262	RSA729824	Claytonia parviflora subsp. viridis
  	UCR192834	Claytonia perfoliata
  Swinney 6264	UCR192833	Delphinium patens ssp. hepaticoideum
  	RSA729835	Delphinium patens ssp. montanum
  Swinney 9526	UCR209247	Cryptantha echinella
  	RSA758718	Cryptantha muricata var. denticulata
  Templeton 5088	POM351970	Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. bernardinus
  	UCR124720	Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. mohavensis
  Thorne 38506	RSA503490	Phacelia egena
  	UC1375337	Phacelia egena
  	RSA230718	Phacelia imbricata subsp. patula

  After this table was produced, Andy Sanders reexamined UCR182477 and found it was actually Gutierrezia microcephala. Hence G. sarothrae was deleted from the checklist.

• Phlox austromontana was deleted from the checklist, since the RSA voucher was annotated by the Phlox expert Carolyn J. Ferguson in 2011. Carolyn also kindly provided us with information about how to best distinguish P. austromontana from P. diffusa, and we confirmed from the single blooming plant on 13 July 2015 that the plants here were indeed P. diffusa. Since the plants are only found here in a 2 mile x 1 mile rectangle, all apparently on limestone habitat, we think it is extremely unlikely that any plants of P. austromontana are present here. See Phlox austromontana and Phlox diffusa for more information.

• Giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, has been planted in the Table Mountain Campground, and is not native to this area. In addition, we found a single plant of Gayophytum diffusum ssp. parviflorum along the Campground Road, which may have been brought to this area by campers.

• The common dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, was found only in the parking area for the antenna site on the east 7473' Peak.

The Flora

See Information about the order in which the species are presented, and the links from the Scientific Name and Common Name.

The column #V gives the number of vouchers for this area, with a maximum of 9 vouchers recorded in that field. If there is no entry in that field, that taxon was vouchered in a nearby area, or, for three species, Fritillaria pinetorum, Linanthus concinnus and Yucca brevifolia, added by RT Hawke from his prior observations at Table Mountain. A symbol of ? before the number indicates whether a species is one of those which have a duplicate voucher with a different determination (see Table 1). The duplicate voucher determination will not have a symbol if we have verified that determination in the field, or if that determination was confirmed by other vouchers.

The column #Pls gives the minimum number of plants, up to a maximum of 99, from all the surveys. If there is uncertainty in the determination, the number has a symbol associated with it, ~ for a probable determination, sp or ? for more uncertain determinations.

The column MC gives a link to the specific page in Michael Charters' Flowering Plants of Table Mountain for species with a photo in that gallery.

Version for printing, without lines, the link to Michael Charters' gallery, and other text on this page: html (6 pages) or pdf Clickbook booklet (2 double-sided pages). (See printing instructions for an explanation of these options)

#	Fam	Scientific Name	(*)Common Name	#V	#Pls	MC
Gymnosperms
1	Cup	Calocedrus decurrens	incense-cedar		50
2	Cup	Sequoiadendron giganteum	*giant sequoia		9
3	Eph	Ephedra viridis	green ephedra		60
4	Pin	Abies concolor	white fir	2	99
5	Pin	Pinus jeffreyi	Jeffrey pine	9	99	p5
6	Pin	Pinus lambertiana	sugar pine		99
7	Pin	Pinus monophylla	pinyon pine	2	99	p5
Eudicots
8	Ado	Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea	blue elderberry		1
9	Ana	Rhus aromatica	basketbush		50
10	Api	Lomatium dissectum var. multifidum	fern-leaved lomatium	1
11	Api	Lomatium nevadense var. parishii	Parish's lomatium	8	2	p1
12	Api	Tauschia parishii	Parish's tauschia	3	35	p1
13	Apo	Apocynum androsaemifolium	spreading dogbane		99
14	Apo	Asclepias californica	California milkweed		99	p8
15	Ast	Agoseris grandiflora var. grandiflora	grand mountain dandelion	2
16	Ast	Agoseris retrorsa	spear-leaved mountain dandelion		99	p7
17	Ast	Ambrosia acanthicarpa	bur-ragweed	1	99	p4
18	Ast	Anisocoma acaulis	scale-bud	2
19	Ast	Antennaria dimorpha	low pussytoes	2	99
20	Ast	Artemisia dracunculus	wild tarragon		99	p8
21	Ast	Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. incompta	mountain mugwort		99
22	Ast	Artemisia tridentata	big sagebrush		99	p8
23	Ast	Chaenactis santolinoides	santolina pincushion	5	70	p3
24	Ast	Chaenactis stevioides	desert pincushion	1
25	Ast	Cirsium occidentale var. californicum	California thistle	2	99	p8
26	Ast	Corethrogyne filaginifolia	California-aster	1	60	p5
27	Ast	Crepis acuminata	long-leaved hawksbeard	2
28	Ast	Dieteria canescens var. canescens	hoary-aster	7	99	p4
29	Ast	Encelia actoni	Acton encelia		1
30	Ast	Ericameria linearifolia	narrowleaf goldenbush		5
31	Ast	Ericameria nauseosa var. bernardina	San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush	1	60	p3
32	Ast	Ericameria nauseosa var. mohavensis	Mohave common rabbitbrush	?!1
33	Ast	Ericameria nauseosa var. oreophila	threadleaf common rabbitbrush		99	p3
34	Ast	Erigeron divergens	spreading fleabane		5
35	Ast	Erigeron foliosus var. foliosus	leafy daisy	3	99	p2
36	Ast	Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum	golden yarrow	3	99	p4
37	Ast	Gnaphalium palustre	western marsh cudweed	1
38	Ast	Gutierrezia microcephala	sticky snakeweed	3	99	p3
39	Ast	Lactuca serriola	*prickly lettuce		12
40	Ast	Lessingia glandulifera var. glandulifera	sticky lessingia		99
41	Ast	Packera ionophylla	Tehachapi ragwort	4	10
42	Ast	Pleiacanthus spinosus	thorny skeleton-plant	5	99	p3
43	Ast	Solidago velutina ssp. californica	goldenrod		99
44	Ast	Stephanomeria exigua	slender wreathplant	2
45	Ast	Stephanomeria exigua ssp. coronaria	slender wreathplant		99	p8
46	Ast	Stephanomeria virgata	twiggy wreath plant	1
47	Ast	Taraxacum officinale	*common dandelion	2	50
48	Ast	Tetradymia canescens	spineless horsebrush	6	99	p7
49	Ast	Tragopogon dubius	*yellow salsify		1	p6
50	Ast	Uropappus lindleyi	silver puffs		1
51	Bet	Alnus rhombifolia	white alder		1
52	Bor	Cryptantha echinella	prickly cryptantha	?!2
53	Bor	Cryptantha muricata var. denticulata	prickly-nut cryptantha	2	6	p1
54	Bor	Cryptantha muricata var. jonesii	Jones' prickly-nut cryptantha		99	p1
55	Bor	Cryptantha oxygona	sharp-nut cryptantha	5
56	Bor	Cryptantha simulans	pine cryptantha	2
57	Bor	Emmenanthe penduliflora var. penduliflora	whispering bells	2	6
58	Bor	Eriodictyon parryi	poodle-dog bush		10	p6
59	Bor	Eriodictyon trichocalyx var. trichocalyx	smoothleaf yerba santa		99	p7
60	Bor	Phacelia curvipes	curve-stem phacelia	?!1
61	Bor	Phacelia davidsonii	Davidson's phacelia	2	99	p1
62	Bor	Phacelia distans	common phacelia		40
63	Bor	Phacelia fremontii	Fremont's phacelia	2	1	p2
64	Bor	Phacelia imbricata	imbricate phacelia	5	99	p3
65	Bor	Phacelia ramosissima	branching phacelia		3
66	Bra	Boechera californica	California elegant rock-cress		sp1
67	Bra	Boechera perennans	perennial rock-cress	1
68	Bra	Boechera pulchra, B. xylopoda	beautiful rock-cress	?!2
69	Bra	Boechera repanda	Yosemite rockcress		30
70	Bra	Boechera retrofracta X	mountain rock-cress	?!1
71	Bra	Boechera xylopoda	slender & beautiful rock-cress	2	sp30
72	Bra	Caulanthus major	slender wild cabbage	7	30	p6
73	Bra	Descurainia pinnata	western tansy-mustard	1	40
74	Bra	Erysimum capitatum var. capitatum	western wallflower	3	99	p7
75	Bra	Hirschfeldia incana	*shortpod mustard		1
76	Bra	Lepidium virginicum	wild pepper-grass		65
77	Bra	Sisymbrium altissimum	*tumble-mustard	2	99
78	Cac	Opuntia basilaris var. brachyclada	short-joint beavertail		24
79	Cac	Opuntia phaeacantha	desert prickly-pear		7	p2
80	Cap	Symphoricarpos rotundifolius var. parishii	Parish's snowberry	5	99	p5
81	Car	Eremogone macradenia var. arcuifolia	desert sandwort	9	99	p6
82	Car	Silene verecunda	white catch-fly	5	40	p3
83	Che	Chenopodium atrovirens	forest goosefoot		50
84	Che	Chenopodium berlandieri	pit-seed goosefoot		1
85	Che	Chenopodium fremontii	Fremont's goosefoot	3	99	p7
86	Che	Salsola tragus	*Russian thistle	1	99
87	Con	Calystegia occidentalis ssp. fulcrata	western morning-glory	4	99	p3
88	Con	Cuscuta californica var. californica	California dodder		~99
89	Eri	Arctostaphylos parryana	Parry manzanita	1	99	p6
90	Eri	Arctostaphylos patula	green-leaf manzanita	4	50	p1
91	Eri	Pterospora andromedea	pinedrops	2
92	Eri	Pyrola dentata	toothed wintergreen		2
93	Eri	Sarcodes sanguinea	snow-plant		6
94	Eup	Euphorbia lurida	woodland spurge	3	85	p1
95	Fab	Acmispon americanus var. americanus	Spanish clover		6
96	Fab	Acmispon grandiflorus var. grandiflorus	chaparral lotus	2	?1
97	Fab	Acmispon nevadensis var. davidsonii	Davidson's lotus	1	65
98	Fab	Acmispon procumbens var. procumbens	silky California broom		99	p5
99	Fab	Astragalus bicristatus	crested milk-vetch	9	80	p2
100	Fab	Astragalus douglasii var. douglasii	Jacumba milk-vetch	9	99	p2
101	Fab	Astragalus leucolobus	Big Bear Valley woollypod	9	99	p2
102	Fab	Hosackia crassifolia var. crassifolia	broad-leaved lotus	5	99	p6
103	Fab	Lupinus andersonii	Anderson's lupine	4
104	Fab	Lupinus excubitus var. austromontanus	mountain grape-soda lupine	3	99	p7
105	Fab	Lupinus excubitus var. johnstonii	interior bush lupine	2
106	Fab	Lupinus formosus var. formosus	western lupine	2	99	p7
107	Fab	Lupinus latifolius	broad-leaf lupine		7
108	Fab	Melilotus albus	*white sweetclover		4
109	Fag	Quercus chrysolepis	canyon live oak	1	99
110	Fag	Quercus kelloggii	California black oak		99	p8
111	Gar	Garrya veatchii	canyon silktassel		2
112	Gen	Frasera neglecta	pine green-gentian	6	99	p8
113	Ger	Erodium cicutarium	*redstem filaree	1	99
114	Gro	Ribes cereum var. cereum	wax currant	1	6
115	Gro	Ribes nevadense	mountain pink currant		99
116	Lam	Monardella australis ssp. australis	southern mountain-monardella	1
117	Lam	Monardella linoides ssp. stricta	narrowleaf monardella	4	99	p6
118	Lam	Stachys albens	cobwebby hedge-nettle		50
119	Loa	Mentzelia congesta	clustered blazing star	5	48
120	Loa	Mentzelia micrantha	chaparral blazing star	1
121	Loa	Mentzelia montana	mountain blazing star		30
122	Mal	Fremontodendron californicum	flannelbush	4	99	p4
123	Mal	Malacothamnus fremontii	Fremont's bush mallow		99
124	Mon	Calyptridium monospermum	pussy paws		99
125	Mon	Claytonia parviflora ssp. viridis	green miner's lettuce	?!1
126	Mon	Claytonia perfoliata	miner's lettuce	?!3
127	Mon	Claytonia rubra ssp. rubra	red-stemmed miner's lettuce	2	38	p4
128	Mon	Lewisia rediviva var. minor	bitter root	1
129	Ona	Camissoniopsis confusa	San Bernardino suncup		2
130	Ona	Epilobium canum ssp. latifolium	mountain California-fuchsia		99	p6
131	Ona	Gayophytum diffusum ssp. parviflorum	groundsmoke	?!1	10
132	Ona	Gayophytum heterozygum	zig-zag gayophytum	1	20	p1
133	Ona	Gayophytum oligospermum	pinegrove groundsmoke		99	p5
134	Ona	Oenothera californica ssp. californica	California evening-primrose		60
135	Oro	Castilleja applegatei ssp. martinii	Martin's paintbrush	5	99	p1
136	Oro	Castilleja chromosa	northwestern paintbrush	?!1
137	Oro	Cordylanthus nevinii	Nevin's bird's beak	3	99	p3
138	Oro	Orobanche californica ssp. feudgei	California broomrape		~7	p2
139	Oro	Orobanche fasciculata	clustered broomrape		30
140	Oro	Pedicularis semibarbata	pine lousewort	4	99	p3
141	Pap	Argemone munita	prickly poppy	3	35	p8
142	Phr	Mimulus cardinalis	scarlet monkeyflower		99
143	Pla	Antirrhinum coulterianum	Coulter's snapdragon		5
144	Pla	Collinsia callosa	desert collinsia	1
145	Pla	Collinsia torreyi var. wrightii	Wright's collinsia	2	15	p6
146	Pla	Penstemon centranthifolius	scarlet bugler		99	p7
147	Pla	Penstemon grinnellii var. grinnellii	Grinnell's beardtongue		75	p6
148	Pla	Penstemon labrosus	San Gabriel beardtongue	2	99	p3
149	Pla	Penstemon rostriflorus	beaked penstemon		99	p3
150	Pla	Penstemon speciosus	showy penstemon	6	99	p1
151	Pol	Eriastrum densifolium	giant woolly-star	5	99	p5
152	Pol	Eriastrum sapphirinum ssp. dasyanthum	sapphire woolly-star		99	p2
153	Pol	Eriastrum sapphirinum ssp. sapphirinum	sapphire woolly-star	4
154	Pol	Gilia brecciarum ssp. brecciarum	Nevada gilia	?!2
155	Pol	Gilia diegensis	coastal gilia	1
156	Pol	Gilia modocensis	Modoc gilia	?!3	20
157	Pol	Gilia ochroleuca ssp. vivida	San Gabriel Mountain gilia	2	5	p7
158	Pol	Gilia sinuata	rosy gilia	?!1
159	Pol	Leptosiphon breviculus	Mojave linanthus	5	99	p4
160	Pol	Linanthus concinnus	San Gabriel linanthus		99
161	Pol	Linanthus pungens	granite prickly phlox		2
162	Pol	Phlox diffusa	spreading phlox	2	99	p2
163	Pol	Saltugilia splendens ssp. splendens	splendid gilia	4	99	p1
164	Pol	Acanthoscyphus parishii var. parishii	Parish's oxytheca	3	99	p5
165	Pol	Chorizanthe watsonii	Watson's spineflower	2
166	Pol	Eriogonum baileyi var. baileyi	Bailey's buckwheat	?!3
167	Pol	Eriogonum cithariforme var. agninum	Cithara buckwheat	1	99
168	Pol	Eriogonum davidsonii	Davidson's buckwheat	?!1	99	p8
169	Pol	Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium	California buckwheat		99	p8
170	Pol	Eriogonum microthecum	slender buckwheat	5	99	p1
171	Pol	Eriogonum nudum var. pauciflorum	naked buckwheat	3	99	p6
172	Pol	Eriogonum parishii	Parish's buckwheat	4	99
173	Pol	Eriogonum saxatile	rock buckwheat	4	90	p3
174	Pol	Eriogonum umbellatum var. munzii	sulphur buckwheat	3	99	p4
175	Pol	Eriogonum wrightii var. subscaposum	Wright's buckwheat	4	99	p1
176	Pol	Polygonum aviculare ssp. depressum	*knotweed		99
177	Ran	Clematis ligusticifolia	virgin's bower		99	p6
178	Ran	Delphinium parishii ssp. parishii	Parish's larkspur	1	50
179	Ran	Delphinium patens ssp. hepaticoideum	spreading larkspur	?!1
180	Ran	Delphinium patens ssp. montanum	spreading larkspur	?!1
181	Rha	Ceanothus cordulatus	mountain whitethorn	3	99
182	Rha	Ceanothus vestitus	Mojave ceanothus	3	99	p8
183	Rha	Frangula californica	California coffeeberry		12	p4
184	Ros	Amelanchier pallida	pallid service-berry	1	40
185	Ros	Cercocarpus betuloides var. betuloides	birch-leaf mountain-mahogany		99
186	Ros	Cercocarpus ledifolius	curl-leaf mountain-mahogany	4	25	p2
187	Ros	Drymocallis glandulosa var. viscida	sticky cinquefoil		99
188	Ros	Prunus fasciculata var. fasciculata	desert almond		99
189	Ros	Purshia tridentata var. glandulosa	desert bitterbrush		99
190	Ros	Rosa woodsii ssp. gratissima	interior rose		99
191	Rub	Galium angustifolium ssp. angustifolium	narrowleaf bedstraw		1
192	Rub	Galium johnstonii	Johnston's bedstraw	5	99	p4
193	Rub	Galium parishii	Parish's bedstraw	4	4	p3
194	Sal	Populus fremontii ssp. fremontii	Fremont cottonwood		1
195	Sal	Salix lasiolepis	arroyo willow		35
196	Sol	Nicotiana attenuata	coyote tobacco		2
197	Sol	Solanum xanti	purple nightshade		99
198	Vio	Viola pinetorum	pine violet	2
199	Vio	Viola purpurea ssp. mohavensis	Mojave goosefoot violet	4
200	Vis	Arceuthobium campylopodum	pine dwarf-mistletoe	2	99
201	Vis	Phoradendron bolleanum	fir mistletoe		99	p1
202	Vis	Phoradendron serotinum ssp. tomentosum	oak mistletoe	2	99	p4
Monocots
203	Aga	Hesperoyucca whipplei	chaparral yucca		99	p1
204	Aga	Yucca brevifolia	joshua tree		x
205	All	Allium burlewii	Burlew's onion		12
206	Cyp	Carex douglasii	Douglas' sedge	4	99
207	Cyp	Carex fracta	fragile sheath sedge		99
208	Jun	Juncus macrophyllus	long-leaved rush	2
209	Jun	Juncus mexicanus	Mexican rush		99
210	Jun	Juncus nevadensis var. nevadensis	Sierra rush		99
211	Jun	Juncus saximontanus	Rocky Mountain rush	1
212	Lil	Calochortus invenustus	plain mariposa lily	4	99
213	Lil	Calochortus palmeri	Palmer's mariposa	1
214	Lil	Fritillaria pinetorum	pine-woods fritillary	1	1
215	Poa	Agropyron cristatum ssp. pectinatum	*desert crested wheatgrass		45
216	Poa	Bromus carinatus var. marginatus	Mountain brome	1	99	p8
217	Poa	Bromus tectorum	*downy brome	3	99
218	Poa	Elymus elymoides	squirreltail	7	99	p8
219	Poa	Elymus glaucus ssp. glaucus	blue wildrye	1	99
220	Poa	Elymus hispidus	*intermediate wheatgrass	2	99	p4
221	Poa	Elymus ponticus	*tall wheatgrass		10
222	Poa	Elymus trachycaulus ssp. trachycaulus	slender wheatgrass		30
223	Poa	Festuca microstachys	small fescue		30
224	Poa	Melica imperfecta	coast-range melic		5
225	Poa	Poa secunda	one-sided blue grass	3	99
226	Poa	Stipa coronata	giant needlegrass	2	5
227	Poa	Stipa hymenoides	Indian ricegrass	5	70	p8
228	Poa	Stipa occidentalis var. pubescens	Elmer's needlegrass	?!2	~50
229	Poa	Stipa parishii var. parishii	Parish's needlegrass	4	65	p8
230	Poa	Stipa speciosa	desert needlegrass		99
231	Poa	Stipa thurberiana	Thurber's needlegrass	?!1
232	The	Muilla coronata	crowned muilla	1
233	The	Muilla maritima	muilla	1

Target Species Found in Nearby Areas

The following species have been vouchered from nearby areas (Circle Mountain or Pinyon Ridge above 6000 feet), but have not yet been found at Table Mountain itself. These species should be looked for on future surveys.

Table 2. Target Species Found in Nearby Areas

Target Species
Acmispon argophyllus var. argophyllus
Camissoniopsis hirtella
Ceanothus leucodermis
Chaenactis xantiana
Chamaesyce albomarginata
Cryptantha circumscissa var. circumscissa
Dactylis glomerata
Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum
Ehrendorferia chrysantha
Erigeron breweri var. covillei
Eriogonum maculatum
Eriogonum pusillum
Eriogonum viridescens
Festuca arundinacea
Galium angustifolium ssp. nudicaule
Garrya flavescens
Loeseliastrum matthewsii
Lomatium mohavense
Lonicera interrupta
Malacothrix glabrata
Melica stricta
Microsteris gracilis
Nemacladus sigmoideus
Quercus john-tuckeri
Salvia columbariae
Solanum umbelliferum
Viola purpurea ssp. quercetorum

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Voucher data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria (ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/) on 20 August 2013.

Tom thanks Jane Strong for originally pointing out some of the questionable taxa in the list came from duplicate vouchers with different determinations. Both of us were very surprised at how many differently-determined duplicate vouchers there were in this set!

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