Anthemis cotula L.

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Anthemis cotula L.

Liebre Mountains, Castaic Creek drainage from Fish Canyon
downstream to power plant, just north of upper end of Castaic
Lake. Near 34°36’00”N, 118°39’45”W. T6N R17W E 1/2 E 1/2
sec. 22; SW 1/4 sec. 23. Elev. ca. 1540 - 1640 feet.

Floodplain on flat valley bottom with gravelly benches of rocks
derived from sandstone, granitic, gneiss, etc. Surrounding slopes
steep, mostly sedimentary and metasedimentary substrates.
Vegetation on slopes mostly scrub of Salvia leucophylla, S.
mellifera, Eriogonum fasciculatum, and Artemisia califomica.
Riparian elements such as Salix lasiolepis, S. laevigata, S. exigua,
Baccharis salicifolia, and Populus fremontii developed along stream
channels, but most benches somewhat disturbed.

Annual, ray flowers white, disk flowers yellow. Occasional on
disturbed floodplain.

Steve Boyd 8814
Orlando Mistretta

23 May 1996

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