Carrizo Plain March 23 2017
Ken & Gina Robinson report from Elkhorn Road, March 17
“Found this specimen on March 17, 2017 along Elkhorn Road – Desert Candle (Caulanthus inflatus)”
Allison Gong also sent an image taken on the Carrizo Plain on March 23, this one of Fiddlenecks
“Hello, I took this picture of young fiddle necks (Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia) on Soda Lake Road on 23 March 2017.”
M.O. sent this image of Soda Lake overlook, taken March 23
Yes, that blue is water in Soda Lake! Baby Blue eyes (Nemophilia menziiesii) as reported earlier remain on the overlook hillside facing Soda Lake. Distant yellow swaths of color above Soda Lk. are presumably the same as that pictured above.Sorry I cannot recall exactly which hillside we surveyed many years ago and found the greatest plant diversity of all our many many miles of transects across all of the NM. It was near the entry into the NM, on R side of Soda Lk rd. as one enters from Hwy 58. A 3 member crew, Jeremy took the vehicle to the far side of the hill in order to pick us up at the end of our transect. But then he rejoined us to ask what was taking us so long. It was all the plant names we were recording–the longest list of any of our hundreds of plots–such reflected the diversity of plants at that transect. There were a few grasses there, but mostly wildflower annuals
Nancy Chalk sent these images from Shell Creek Road, Highway 58
“Still building out. Not peaked. Creek is flowing nicely! The baby blue eyes are just emerging. The creek is flowing nicely. I saw a few wild alliums, baby blue eyes, purple owls clover and desert dandelion. I walked the creek as I look for lillies. Those are elusive! Anyway, besides gold fields and tidy tips and fiddlenecks … we are a couple weeks out from peak.”
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