emmawynn's Identifications

Pygmy fleabane growing on the summit area of Mount Rose, Carson Range, Sierra Nevada, Washoe County, Nevada. This cespitose to spreading mat-forming perennial forb of subalpine to alpine talus is distinguished by its heads of generally purple ray petals and yellow disk corollas and essentially uniseriate purplish to purplish tinged involucral bracts.

Eriogonum lobbii growing in alpine talus near the summit of Mount Rose, Carson Range, Washoe County, Nevada. Basal rosettes of petiolate ovate to obovate tomentose leaves and tight capitate flowering heads with flowers each having usually rose tepals fused into a stipe-like base. These Mount Rose population are situated in the middle of a geographical distribution that ranges mostly from northern California south into the southern Sierra Nevada.

Gray licorice root in open dry understory of lodgepole and whitebark pine and adjacent montane dry meadows along the trail to Mount Rose, Carson Range, Washoe County, Nevada. This species is one of several Apiaceae in the area that can form locally dense large stands. Umbels with 15 or fewer primary rays and leaves with finely dissected and lobed leaflets are distinguishing.

Woodyfruit evening primrose in the montane and subalpine understory of whitebark and lodgepole pine along the trail to Mount Rose, Carson Range, Washoe County, Nevada. The purple spotted gray hairy leaves arranged in a basal rosette and the sessile flowers with large yellow petals (in evening through morning condition) are distinctive of this evening primrose. An endemic to central and southern Sierra Nevada that may have its northern range limit in the Mount Rose area of the Carson Range.

Rockfringe fringing granite diorite basement rock and boulders along the trail to Mount Rose, Carson Range, Washoe County, Nevada. This site lies in the open understory of lodgepole and whitebark pine. Similar to Chamaenerion (Epilobium) latifolium, dwarf fire weed, ecologically and morphologically except that the petals of rockfringe emanate from a hypanthium.