List of flora of the Mojave Desert region explained

This list of flora of the Mojave Desert region includes the flora of the Mojave Desert and of the mountains that are encircled by the Mojave Desert. Some of this flora is well above the level of growth of Yucca brevifolia (Joshua Trees), the upper reaches of which defines the outline of the Mojave Desert. Also included are flora of the Little San Bernardino Mountains dividing the Mojave Desert from the Colorado Desert. The flora are arranged in several sublists with different organizations for the convenience of encyclopedia users with different purposes - alphabetically by scientific name, alphabetically by plant family then by scientific name, by growth pattern (e.g., tree, shrub, perennial, annual, etc.) then alphabetically by scientific name, by flower color (with duplicate entries when flower colors vary for a single species, and alphabetically by common name.

Each entry in the alphabetical list by scientific name is followed by the common name(s) (in bold and in parentheses), plant family, growth form(s), flower color(s), and brief etymology of the components of the scientific name.

List by scientific name

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List by plant family and genus

A

Agave deserti var. simplex[7] (simple desert agave),[7] "simplex" = "simple, undivided, or unbranched"

Amaranthus (amaranth,[7] pigweed[7] }

Hydrocotyle (marsh pennywort[7]

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides[7]

Hydrocotyle umbellata[7]

Hydrocotyle verticillata[7]

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C

E

F

G

Z

List by common names

Notes and References

  1. Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd ed., 2013,
  2. http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Acmispon+heermannii Acmispon heermanii, Calflora
  3. Calflora, Camissoniopsis pallida (Abrams) W.L. Wagner & Hoch ssp. hallii (Davidson) W.L. Wagner & HochHall's sun cup,, http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Camissoniopsis+pallida+ssp.+hallii
  4. Camissoniopsis pallida (Abrams) W.L. Wagner & Hoch ssp. pallida, Pale sun cup, http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Camissoniopsis+pallida+ssp.+pallida
  5. Plants of Pioneertown Mountains Preserve, The Wildlands Conservancy, 4-7-2010
  6. Two new desert Eschscholzia (Papaveraceae) from southwestern North America, Shannon M. Still, PhytoKeys. 3-11-2014; (35): 45–56, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023337/
  7. The Jepson Manual, Vascular Plants of California, 2nd ed., 2012
  8. http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Pluchea+sericea Pluchea serecia, Calflora
  9. Note: Not in Jepson Manual as occurring in Mojave Desert
  10. Consortium of California Herbaria, Specimen number DS126682, Determination Achillea millefolium, More information: Jepson Online Interchange, Collector, number, date S. B. Parish, 10603, June 25, 1915, County San Bernardino, Locality Meadows: Victorville, Coordinates 34.5370 -117.2938 BerkeleyMapper [or without layers, here], Datum WGS84; ER = 3.500 km, Coordinate source Geolocate (copied from RSA378398), Annotations and/or curatorial actions Achillea millefolium S. B. Parish 1915-06-25, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/new_detail.pl?accn_num=DS126682&YF=1
  11. Book: Barbour, Michael G.. Billings. William Dwight. 2000. North American Terrestrial Vegetation. Cambridge University Press. 0-521-55986-3.
  12. Book: Annerino, John. 1999. Canyoneering: How to Explore the Canyons of the Great Southwest. Stackpole Books. 0-8117-2700-9. registration.
  13. Hogan, C. Michael (2008) "Western poison-oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum", GlobalTwitcher, ed. Nicklas Strömberg

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