USA, California, San Bernardino County, Mojave Desert; Cadiz Valley, 3.3 miles NE of Saltus, 5 miles WSW of Chambless, c. 0.5 mi. south of National Trails Hwy. (old Rte 66) on dirt road (gasline rte?) c. 0.16 mi. east of Bolo Rd. (Amboy 7.5' Q)
34.5534 -115.634 +-1000m.
270 meters
875ft
Alluvial slope, desert pavement cut by washes, sandy and gravelly with cobbles; sparse creosote bush scrub.
Larrea, Ambrosia dumosa and a moderate number of annuals . Pavement plus or minus barren, but annuals fairly common along washes.
Fairly common annual, mostly in shrub clumps; fls. white. Fruiting calyx with coarse spreading bristles and not obscured by dense ascending hairs.