Inyo County
Water Department

The Monitor 1998


1998 Additions to Inyo County Herbarium
Denise Waterbury, Research Assistant II

Inyo County Water Department's herbarium contains 194 plant species found in the Owens Valley.

During 1998, the following species were added to the collection. A complete list is available at the ICWD.


Family/Species (Common Name in Parens)

BORAGINACEAE
Pectocarya penicillata (Slender combseed)
Tiquilia nuttallii

BRASSICACEAE
Hutchinsia procumbens (Meadow Mustard)
Lepidium dictyotum
Lepidium fremontii (Desert Alyssum)
Lepidium perfoliatum (Shield Cress)

CAPPARACEAE
Cleomella parviflora (Small-flowered stinkweed)

CARYOPHYLLACEAE
Loeflingia squarrosa var. artemisiarum (Sage-like loeflingia)

FABACEAE
Lupinus brevicaulis (Sand lupine)

HYDROPHYLLACEAE
Tricardia watsonii (Three hearts)

LILIACEAE
Allium atrorubens var. cristatum (Inyo onion)
Dichelostemma capitatum (Blue dicks)
Zigadenus venenosus var. venenosus (Death camas)

NYCTAGINACEAE
Abronia turbinata (Transmontane sand verbena)

ONAGRACEAE
Camissonia parvula (Wiry primrose)

OXALIDACEAE
Oxalis corniculata* (Creeping woodsorrel)

POACEAE
Bromus catharticus* (Rescue grass)
Panicum capillare (Witchgrass)
Spartina gracilis (Alkali cordgrass)

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Owen's Valley checkerbloom (Sidealcea coveillei). Photograph by Sally Manning

POLEMONIACEAE
Gilia inyoensis
Gilia leptomeria (Inyo gilia)
Gilia micromeria (Sand gilia)
Linanthus aureus ssp. aureus (Dainty gilia)
Linanthus parryae (Sand blossoms)

POLYGONACEAE
Centrostegia thurberi (Thurber's spineflower/red triangles)

SCROPHULARIACEAE
Mimulus suksdorfii (Suksdorf miniature mimulus)
Veronica anagallis-aquatica

Illustration credits: Shrubs of the Great Basin, by Hugh N. Mozingo, drawings by Christin Stitter, University of Nevada Press Intermountain Flora: Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A., published for the New York Botanical Garden by Columbia University Press Manual of the Grasses of the United States, 2nd edition revised by Agnes Chase, Dover edition of the 1950 publication by the US Department of Agriculture

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