San Jacinto Mountain Species in Bloom Above 6500 Feet Elevation: 2011
Species in Bloom On Each Trip
Introduction
This page reports the number of species seen in bloom above 6500 feet elevation on each hike at San Jacinto Mountain, along with our best-guess estimate of the total number of plants in bloom for each species.
It is important to note that these numbers were compiled only incidentally to our main botanical goals for each trip. Hence few of the numbers of plants in bloom come from actual counts, since we rarely made a point of actually surveying intently for how many plants of each species were in bloom.
Our procedure was to note each species in bloom when encountered for the first time. Most of the time, near the end of each hike, we make an estimate of how many plants we remembered seeing in bloom for each species. Sometimes, there isn't time to make those estimates during the hike, and they are made a day or two after the hike.
Although we generally end up with a pretty good idea of the number of plants we saw, especially when discussing it with each other at the time, there very well could have been more plants in bloom for some species that we didn't notice. Hence these numbers should in general be treated as minimum numbers of plants in bloom along our hiking routes.
No guessing, extrapolation, or interpolation was used; we only estimated the actual number of plants in bloom that we saw. For example, if our attention was diverted elsewhere at the only location of a species in bloom as we hiked by it, we did not count it as being seen in bloom. For example, in 2011, snow-plant was almost surely in bloom on the route we surveyed on 6/27, since some of the same plants were seen in bloom on that route on 6/22 and 7/1. But since somehow we missed seeing it in bloom that day, no numbers were reported for it in the table below.
I.e., the absence of a number in the table below does not necessarily mean no plants of that species were in bloom.
Number of Species and Plants in Bloom On Each Trip
Three plots are given below:
- The first two plots, Figures 1-2, show what was observed on each trip, the total number of species in bloom and the total number of plants in bloom. The total number of plants in bloom for each individual species is capped at a maximum of 99 plants.
- The next plot, Figure 3, gives the cumulative total numbers from all trips so far this season, of all species seen in bloom. These cumulative total numbers include the number of species on a given trip as well as those from all trips previous to that trip.
In Figures 1 and 3, data from just the Devils Slide Trail from 2006, the severe drought year of 2007, and from 2011 are plotted as well for comparison. Since not every trip in 2011 involved the Devils Slide Trail, the curve for 2011 has fewer points than the curve for 2007.
Note that the Devils Slide curves for 2011 follow the curves for 2007 almost exactly, with the main difference being a slight pause in the decline in the number of species in bloom in 2007, which was probably due to more extensive summer rainfall that year in August.
The plots and the table here must be interpreted cautiously, for at least two reasons:
- First, long hikes will find more plants in bloom than short hikes.
- Second, some areas have a higher species diversity than others, and so will have more species blooming at a given time.
Figure 1. Number of Species in Bloom on Each Trip
Figure 2. Number of Plants in Bloom on Each Trip
Figure 3. Cumulative Number of Species Seen in Bloom From All Trips
List of Species in Bloom On Each Trip
Table 4 gives the number of plants observed to be in bloom for each species on each hike, with a maximum value of 99 plants for each species. This maximum value prevents one species from dominating the total plants in bloom, and makes it much easier on me to keep track of the bloom.
Because the hike locations vary, some species will not be present on every hike, so the lack of an entry for a given hike says nothing about whether that species is blooming elsewhere. For example, the 2011 hikes on 8/2, 8/7 and 8/12 were all in the Fuller Ridge Area, whereas the 7/1, 7/6, 7/11, 7/26, and 8/16 hikes were all in the Devils Slide / Skunk Cabbage Meadow / Reeds Meadow area. A glance at the first ten species in the table below will show some of the differences in those areas.
The Checklist is sorted first by category, with dicots before monocots, and then by family and scientific name. The Family and Scientific Name are from the 1993 First Edition Jepson Manual. An asterisk before the Common Name indicates a non-native taxon.
See Plant Family Abbreviations to obtain the full family name from the abbreviations used in the table below.
Of course, species that bloom later in the year, and species that do not have flowers (ferns, etc.) are not present in this list, so it is not the equivalent of a plant checklist for the higher elevations of San Jacinto Mountain.
Table 4. List of Species in Bloom On Each Trip
# FAM Scientific Name Common Name 5/3 5/22 5/25 5/31 6/22 6/27 7/1 7/6 7/11 7/26 8/2 8/7 8/12 8/16 8/29 9/4 9/11 9/16 9/21 9/26 9/30 10/11 1 PIN Pinus jeffreyi Jeffrey pine 1 2 PIN Pinus lambertiana sugar pine 1 3 API Angelica tomentosa woolly angelica 10 10 1 4 API Perideridia parishii Parish's yampah 50 99 1 10 22 5 API Sphenosciadium capitellatum ranger's buttons 10 40 20 6 AST Achillea millefolium yarrow 1 5 5 1 99 99 99 10 7 AST Artemisia dracunculus wild tarragon 70 8 AST Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. incompta mountain mugwort 50 9 AST Aster alpigenus var. andersonii Anderson's oreastrum-aster 10 10 10 AST Aster occidentalis var. occidentalis western mountain aster 4 11 AST Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. bernardinus San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush 5 3 20 50 10 10 10 5 15 7 12 AST Cirsium occidentale var. californicum California thistle 1 1 13 AST Cirsium vulgare *bull thistle 1 14 AST Erigeron foliosus var. foliosus leafy daisy 10 5 15 AST Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum golden yarrow 30 50 5 4 5 1 10 10 20 10 1 16 AST Gnaphalium californicum California everlasting 10 10 17 AST Gnaphalium canescens ssp. thermale slender everlasting 20 1 18 AST Gnaphalium palustre western marsh cudweed 10 50 50 19 AST Hieracium albiflorum white hawkweed 1 20 AST Hieracium horridum prickly hawkweed 1 10 10 10 10 10 5 1 1 1 1 21 AST Hulsea heterochroma red-rayed hulsea 2 22 AST Hulsea vestita ssp. callicarpha beautiful hulsea 99 1 10 20 1 1 23 AST Lessingia filaginifolia var. filaginifolia California-aster 20 10 30 20 4 1 24 AST Madia minima dwarf madia 50 25 AST Senecio triangularis arrowhead butterweed 1 26 AST Solidago californica goldenrod 15 25 50 20 99 50 20 27 AST Stephanomeria virgata twiggy wreath plant 20 28 BOR Cryptantha micrantha purple-root cryptantha 99 99 99 5 20 2 29 BOR Cryptantha muricata var. jonesii prickly cryptantha 10 1 30 BRA Arabis holboellii var. pinetorum pinewoods rock-cress 15 2 31 BRA Arabis platysperma broad-seeded rock-cress 5 32 BRA Arabis sparsiflora var. californica California elegant rock-cress 30 33 BRA Erysimum capitatum ssp. capitatum western wallflower 8 2 99 99 50 30 99 30 20 30 5 10 10 5 1 3 34 BRA Streptanthus bernardinus Laguna Mtns. jewel-flower 4 1 3 35 CAP Sambucus mexicana blue elderberry 1 10 30 50 2 1 30 36 CAP Symphoricarpos rotundifolius var. parishii Parish's snowberry 1 5 1 2 25 37 CAR Sagina saginoides pearlwort 20 5 38 CAR Silene parishii Parish's campion 1 1 2 5 10 10 10 10 10 99 1 39 CAR Silene verecunda ssp. platyota white catch-fly 2 50 70 50 30 10 2 1 20 5 5 2 1 40 CHE Chenopodium atrovirens forest goosefoot 20 30 5 30 40 10 1 41 CHE Chenopodium fremontii Fremont's goosefoot 1 10 50 5 42 CRA Dudleya cymosa ssp. pumila canyon dudleya 3 50 43 ERI Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. adamsii Laguna manzanita 1 1 44 ERI Arctostaphylos patula green-leaf manzanita 30 45 ERI Arctostaphylos pringlei ssp. drupacea pink-bracted manzanita 2 10 15 10 2 46 ERI Pterospora andromedea pinedrops 3 5 10 5 47 ERI Pyrola picta white-veined wintergreen 1 5 48 ERI Rhododendron occidentale western azalea 25 50 50 50 50 50 2 49 ERI Sarcodes sanguinea snow-plant 1 5 10 3 2 50 FAB Lotus crassifolius var. crassifolius broad-leaved lotus 30 99 1 5 2 5 51 FAB Lotus grandiflorus var. grandiflorus chaparral lotus 4 4 15 10 10 1 52 FAB Lotus nevadensis var. nevadensis Sierra Nevada lotus 5 2 3 50 50 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 30 30 20 3 53 FAB Lotus oblongifolius var. oblongifolius streambank lotus 1 10 20 50 99 99 5 10 54 FAB Lupinus concinnus bajada lupine 6 55 FAB Lupinus excubitus var. austromontanus mountain grape-soda lupine 3 1 1 56 FAB Lupinus hyacinthinus San Jacinto lupine 1 1 25 40 20 99 99 99 99 40 75 3 5 3 57 FAB Lupinus latifolius var. parishii Parish's lupine 1 3 99 10 20 3 58 FAB Lupinus polyphyllus var. burkei bigleaf lupine 20 20 20 59 FAB Trifolium longipes var. nevadense mountain clover 20 1 5 60 FAB Trifolium monanthum var. grantianum mountain carpet clover 10 20 99 20 3 1 61 TRI Trifolium variegatum variegated clover 3 5 62 FAB Trifolium willdenovii tomcat clover 20 63 FAG Chrysolepis sempervirens bush chinquapin 2 1 5 1 10 64 GER Geranium californicum California geranium 10 65 GRO Ribes cereum var. cereum wax currant 2 3 5 1 66 GRO Ribes nevadense mountain pink currant 5 20 1 2 67 GRO Ribes roezlii var. roezlii Sierra gooseberry 1 5 10 1 68 HYD Phacelia austromontana southern Sierra phacelia 40 69 HYD Phacelia mutabilis changeable phacelia 5 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 30 99 20 5 1 4 5 4 70 HYD Phacelia ramosissima var. ramosissima branching phacelia 2 1 2 2 1 71 HYP Hypericum anagalloides tinker's penny 10 10 20 1 10 72 LAM Monardella australis southern mountain-monardella 99 35 2 5 1 2 73 LAM Monardella nana ssp. tenuiflora short-flowered monardella 5 50 2 30 10 10 2 74 LAM Salvia pachyphylla rose sage 1 75 LAM Stachys ajugoides var. rigida rigid hedge-nettle 2 3 5 20 50 99 1 76 ONA Epilobium canum ssp. latifolium mountain California-fuchsia 1 1 1 2 2 20 10 10 10 50 99 99 50 99 50 99 50 77 ONA Epilobium ciliatum ssp. ciliatum willowherb 2 20 10 20 50 1 1 78 ONA Epilobium ciliatum ssp. glandulosum glandular willowherb 5 79 ONA Epilobium glaberrimum ssp. glaberrimum glaucus willowherb 1 2 30 30 5 20 10 20 5 1 80 ONA Epilobium oregonense slimstem willowweed 99 81 ONA Gayophytum diffusum ssp. parviflorum groundsmoke 10 10 10 10 99 99 10 99 1 10 10 1 10 82 ONA Gayophytum oligospermum pinegrove groundsmoke 50 50 10 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 30 30 99 10 1 5 10 83 ORO Boschniakia strobilacea California groundcone 5 3 84 PAP Argemone munita prickly poppy 1 85 POL Allophyllum divaricatum purple false-gilia 30 99 1 20 20 1 5 3 86 POL Eriastrum densifolium ssp. austromontanum southern mountain woolly-star 30 99 50 20 10 87 POL Gilia splendens ssp. splendens splendid gilia 1 2 3 2 6 5 30 50 10 99 5 4 3 88 POL Leptodactylon jaegeri San Jacinto prickly phlox 1 1 1 4 89 POL Leptodactylon pungens granite prickly phlox 50 50 10 10 5 1 90 POL Linanthus ciliatus whisker-brush 99 91 POL Eriogonum apiculatum San Jacinto buckwheat 5 10 99 99 99 99 99 99 10 50 20 92 POL Eriogonum cithariforme Cithara buckwheat 15 99 10 93 POL Eriogonum nudum var. pauciflorum naked buckwheat 1 99 99 99 5 99 99 50 70 70 30 15 4 94 POL Eriogonum parishii Parish's buckwheat 5 99 5 95 POL Eriogonum saxatile rock buckwheat 10 2 1 3 1 96 POL Eriogonum umbellatum var. munzii sulphur buckwheat 99 10 1 3 97 POL Eriogonum wrightii var. membranaceum Wright's buckwheat 1 5 98 POL Eriogonum wrightii var. subscaposum Wright's buckwheat 10 10 99 99 99 POL Polygonum bistortoides western bistort 20 50 50 3 100 POL Polygonum douglasii ssp. douglasii Douglas' knotweed 2 1 101 POR Calyptridium monospermum pussy paws 99 99 99 50 20 50 30 5 1 102 POR Calyptridium parryi var. parryi Parry's sand cress 99 103 POR Montia chamissoi toad lily 1 104 PRI Dodecatheon alpinum alpine shooting star 10 105 RAN Aquilegia formosa western columbine 5 20 30 50 99 20 3 15 5 2 10 2 1 106 RAN Thalictrum fendleri var. fendleri Fendler's meadow-rue 5 1 107 RHA Ceanothus cordulatus mountain whitethorn 10 99 99 50 10 3 108 RHA Ceanothus leucodermis chaparral whitethorn 1 109 RHA Rhamnus californica California coffeeberry 2 5 5 5 1 1 110 ROS Horkelia clevelandii Cleveland's horkelia 5 10 20 30 70 70 30 10 10 20 1 1 30 12 111 ROS Ivesia santolinoides Sierra mousetail 1 112 ROS Potentilla glandulosa ssp. nevadensis Nevada cinquefoil 30 50 50 50 50 50 5 113 ROS Potentilla glandulosa ssp. reflexa sticky cinquefoil 1 4 1 20 50 70 70 70 70 40 20 40 10 2 2 114 ROS Potentilla gracilis var. fastigiata slender cinquefoil 10 10 115 ROS Prunus emarginata bitter cherry 99 50 116 ROS Rubus parviflorus thimbleberry 2 5 10 15 10 1 117 RUB Galium angustifolium ssp. angustifolium narrowleaf bedstraw 1 5 3 10 10 118 RUB Galium angustifolium ssp. jacinticum San Jacinto Mtns. bedstraw 99 119 RUB Galium parishii Parish's bedstraw 1 2 2 10 10 120 RUB Kelloggia galioides breakfast bedstraw 13 121 SCR Castilleja applegatei ssp. martinii Martin's paintbrush 4 10 10 50 99 10 15 20 20 5 5 1 1 122 SCR Castilleja miniata ssp. miniata giant red paintbrush 1 4 4 20 99 20 5 10 2 20 5 4 5 9 1 123 SCR Castilleja minor ssp. spiralis lesser paintbrush 2 124 SCR Cordylanthus nevinii Nevin's bird's beak 99 99 99 99 99 3 125 SCR Keckiella rothrockii var. jacintensis San Jacinto Mts. keckiella 3 20 20 20 99 50 126 SCR Mimulus breweri Brewer's monkeyflower 99 99 50 99 99 99 50 20 1 127 SCR Mimulus cardinalis scarlet monkeyflower 5 20 50 20 50 128 SCR Mimulus floribundus floriferous monkeyflower 99 99 50 50 50 50 50 99 99 99 10 50 5 30 129 SCR Mimulus guttatus common monkeyflower 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 30 50 30 1 1 130 SCR Mimulus moschatus musk monkeyflower 10 15 15 30 99 99 99 50 99 50 50 4 1 131 SCR Mimulus pilosus false monkeyflower 1 5 20 50 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 1 99 20 132 SCR Mimulus primuloides ssp. primuloides primrose monkeyflower 10 99 99 99 133 SCR Mimulus suksdorfii Suksdorf's monkeyflower 50 99 50 20 1 134 SCR Mimulus tilingii larger mountain monkeyflower 50 50 99 50 70 70 99 99 10 2 20 6 3 3 135 SCR Pedicularis semibarbata pine lousewort 4 50 99 10 2 1 136 SCR Penstemon grinnellii var. grinnellii Grinnell's beardtongue 40 80 90 80 80 75 10 5 2 20 1 137 SCR Penstemon labrosus San Gabriel beardtongue 5 20 10 20 35 138 SCR Penstemon rostriflorus beaked penstemon 3 20 50 99 99 99 20 50 50 20 20 10 7 5 1 3 139 SCR Scrophularia californica ssp. floribunda California bee plant 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 140 SCR Veronica serpyllifolia ssp. humifusa thyme-leaved speedwell 99 1 3 141 SOL Nicotiana attenuata coyote tobacco 99 99 50 50 142 SOL Solanum xanti purple nightshade 1 30 143 URT Urtica dioica ssp. holosericea stinging nettle 10 144 VIO Viola purpurea ssp. quercetorum goosefoot yellow violet 10 145 VIS Phoradendron villosum oak mistletoe 2 146 CYP Carex abrupta abrupt-beak sedge 10 10 10 147 CYP Carex fracta fragile sheath sedge 15 5 99 99 99 99 1 148 CYP Carex heteroneura var. heteroneura vari-nerved sedge 2 2 5 1 149 CYP Carex senta swamp sedge 50 50 50 150 CYP Cyperus squarrosus bearded flatsedge 3 151 IRI Sisyrinchium bellum blue-eyed grass 1 1 1 1 1 152 JUN Juncus longistylis long-styled rush 1 5 99 99 153 JUN Juncus macrandrus long-anthered rush 99 154 JUN Juncus tiehmii Tiehm's rush 99 155 JUN Luzula comosa hairy wood rush 20 20 10 1 156 LIL Allium campanulatum dusky onion 10 10 157 LIL Allium burlewii Burlew's onion 99 99 99 158 LIL Calochortus invenustus plain mariposa lily 5 2 30 50 159 LIL Lilium parryi lemon lily 8 99 60 3 1 160 LIL Smilacina stellata little false-solomon's-seal 1 20 161 LIL Veratrum californicum var. californicum California corn lily 1 99 162 ORC Corallorhiza maculata spotted coralroot 10 1 20 10 10 163 ORC Platanthera leucostachys white bog orchid 9 164 POA Achnatherum parishii Parish's needlegrass 50 165 POA Agrostis exarata spike bentgrass 99 20 1 166 POA Agrostis idahoensis Idaho bentgrass 99 99 99 99 10 167 POA Agrostis scabra rough bentgrass 99 99 168 POA Bromus carinatus var. carinatus California brome 10 20 50 50 169 POA Bromus ciliatus fringed brome 2 10 170 POA Bromus tectorum *downy brome 99 171 POA Deschampsia elongata slender hairgrass 50 99 99 99 2 172 POA Elymus elymoides squirreltail 99 99 50 173 POA Elymus glaucus ssp. glaucus blue wildrye 50 99 20 174 POA Elymus trachycaulus slender wheatgrass 30 30 175 POA Glyceria elata tall mannagrass 99 1 5 176 POA Muhlenbergia richardsonis mat muhly 3 177 POA Poa fendleriana ssp. longiligula Fendler's blue grass 5 1 178 POA Poa pratensis ssp. agassizensis Kentucky blue grass 20 50 99 50 99 30
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Updated 16 October 2011 ("Allium cratericola" corrected to "Allium burlewii" on 28 November 2017).