Myosurus minimus var. apus Greene

RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN
Flora of Riverside County, California, USA
RANUNCULACEAE
Myosurus minimus L.
var. apus (E. Greene) G. R. Campbell
San Jacinto Valley, ca 2 air miles NE of Winchester and 0.5 mi W
of Ryan Airfield in the upper Salt Creek floodplain, at the N end of
California Avenue, N of Stetson Avenue, W of the Metropolitan
Water District canal. Near 33°44’20”N, 117°02’30”W. T5S R2W
S 1/2 N 1/2 sec. 13 and N 1/2 S 1/2 sec. 13. Elev. ca 1500 ft.
Seasonally flooded alkaline playa developed along indistinct runoff
channels of Salt Creek. The entire area used in the past as pasture
land and the eastern portion plowed in the recent past.
Alkali grassland and herbland of Hordeum intercedens, Lasthenia
califomica, Lepidium dictyotum, Deschampsia danthonioides,
Plantago elongata, Plagiobothrys leptoclada, Frankenia salina,
Psilocarphus brevissimus, etc.
Locally common annual in drying beds of deeper depressions.
Steve Boyd 8601
Dave Bramlet
19 Apr 1996
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