AZ, Colorado Plateau, 20060411
Grand Canyon, rim above Marble Canyon, flowers.
East rim of Marble Canyon just N of Twentynine Mile Canyon.
Echinocactus polycephalus polycephalus
Echinocereus engelmannii
Escobaria vivipara deserti
Opuntia echinocarpa?
Opuntia polyacantha
Castilleja angustifolia
In wash on rim.
| GEN | sev brs from base (apparently making it peren) |
| HAIR | short and long d downward arching, sl thickened base, multicellular, some fine clear gland puberulence on calyx |
| LF | 3-5 lobes, 50x8mm, lat lobes to 15x2mm, lobes lin, central body lance, tip rounded, lobes spreading, purplish, bracts 5-lobed and shorter w red tips, uppermost lvs 5-lobed but not red |
| SEP | 15mm, front and back cuts 4mm, lat cuts 3mm, lobes all eq, lobes red while rest greenish purplish |
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| STYLE | 2 lobed |
Cheilanthes feei [voucher]
In limestone crevice on side of rocky wash.
| GEN | v short creep if at all, cesp |
| ST | deep br, long crinkly pilose, terete |
| LF | 3-pin, segs bead-like, glab ab but some tangled hairs protruding from bel, v d tawny to white vill bel obscuring undersurface entirely, no scales |
Poa fendleriana longiligula [voucher]
Just starting to bloom; only one other (Bromus madritensis) blooming now.
| GEN | peren, cesp, dioec |
| LF | upper ones short and v obviously prow-tipped w white marg and tip
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| INFL | ellip-lance, 100x20mm, v dense |
| SPKLT | 6mm, 3+ fls, sl lat comp, callus glab
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