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Eriophyllum ambiguum var. ambiguum
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Photographer: Aaron Schusteff
ID: 0000 0000 0612 1428 (2012-06-22)Copyright © 2012 Aaron Schusteff
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date of photo May 31, 2012
location
Rancheria Rd, NE of Davis Camp, Greenhorn Mountains, Sequoia National Forest (Kern County, California, US)family
Asteraceae
notes This annual keyed to Eriophyllum ambiguum var. ambiguum in the joint Kern County key/flora by Moe & Twisselman. Twisselman stated it's ''common in the Greenhorn range...growing mostly in the Doulglas Oak woodland''. The site here was at ~ 5500' elevation on a large, open, south-facing bank within surrounding mixed Conifer-Black Oak woodland...considerably above the bulk of the foothill Douglas Oak woodland zone. (Though the Jepson Manual lists the elevation range of Blue Oak as < 1590 m = 5215 feet...and Twisselmann did use the qualifier ''most'' :-). The Jepson Manual and FNA list the elevation range of E. ambiguum var. ambiguum as 200-1900 m, which would include the site here. The illustration in Fig 5374 in Abrams is a reasonable fit....I can't find other visual comparisons for variety ambiguum elsewhere on the web. This is a smaller-flowered and apparently less-commonly encountered (or at least noticed) plant than the other variety...the larger-flowered E. a. var. palaceum. (Though the plants in this post look intermediate between the two varieties.)photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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