UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0102101
UCR-BPS-112762
UCR-112762
Boerhavia wrightii A. Gray
Nyctaginaceae
A.C. Sanders
23350
2000-04-21
2000-4-21
T.B. Salvato
United States, California, Riverside, east side of the Coachella Canal between I-10 and Ave. 56 (Airport Rd.), 3 miles east of Thermal; Coachella Valley
33.64167 -116.09167
NH 8E 2N; T6S R9E sec18
15 meters (49ft)
Low area where water accumulates above the canal berm; blocked washes. Creosote bush scrub on dry slopes, mixed microphyll & tamarisk woodland immediately above berm. Deep clay soil, cracking & forming large polygons.
Flowering & Fruiting
Scarce annual in formerly ponded area near the road and canal; fls. pink.