PRELIMINARY PLANT LIST

CARRIZO PLAIN NATIONAL MONUMENT,
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

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KEY TO PLANT LIST

NOTES

* = sensitive species
sp = species
ssp = subspecies
v = variety
ro = ranch ornamental

COMMUNITIES  C = common or occasional; x = scarce or rare.

• SINK =  alkali (valley) sink scrub. A low shrubland dominated by iodine bush and non-native grasses. Found at the edge of Soda Lake.
• SALT = saltbush scrub (valley). An open chenopod scrubland dominated by scattered saltbush and non-native grasses. Upland from the alkali sink community.
• GRAS = grassland. Non-native annual grassland, sparse to fairly dense, dominated by bromes, filaree, and schismus. Found mainly in the central area.
• DES = semi-desert scrub (upper Sonoran sub-shrub scrub). A low drought-tolerant shrubland dominated by ephedra, golden bush, and non-native grasses. Located in the Elkhorn Plain and the lower elevations of the Caliente Mountains.
• JUN = juniper woodland (cismontane). A fairly open to dense woodland characterized by scattered junipers, low shrubs, and non-native grasses. Higher elevations of the Temblor and Caliente Mountains.
• OAK = oak-juniper woodland. A compact woodland dominated by junipers and blue oaks.  Highest parts of the Temblor and Caliente Ranges.
• SEEP = moist soils at seeps and springs; riparian.

FORM indicates growth form or habit.

• a = annual
• s = shrub, woody
• h = herb, annual
• t = tree
• p = perennial
• v = vine

LOCATION C = common or occasional, x = scarce or rare.

• SODA = Soda Lake
• CENT = central (e.g. Elkhorn scarp to base of western foothills)
• WEST = westside foothills of the Caliente Range
• MTN = Caliente Mountain. An extended area, especiallly east and west; not limited to the peak
• ELK = Elkhorn Plain
• TEMB = Temblor Range (the southwest side up to the summit)

FLOWER
MO = flowering months (general;  this can vary), 1 = January, 2 = February, etc.
COL = flower color

• b = blue
• r = red
• o = orange
• w = white
• n = brown
• y = yellow
• p = pink through purple

NAT -- whether or not the plant is native.
  n = native
  i = introduced

REF = references

• b = George Butterworth
• c = Chadwick, Ann, personal communication
• cs = Clif Smith, A Flora of the Santa Barbara Region, 1998
• dk = Dr. David Kiel and/or the Cal Poly Herbarium
• F = Dr. Fred Hrusa, Calif. Dept. of Agriculture Herbarium Curator
• h = Hoover, R. F., The Vascular Plants of San Luis Obispo County, U. C. Press, Berkeley, 1970
• j = Johna Cochran , Bureau of Land Management, personal communication
• k = Kakiba-Russell, K., and E. Hubert, "CPNA, a Checklist of Vascular Plants," and (with L. Spiegel) CPNA Biological Resources Inventory: Sensitive Species Accounts, Appendix 4. BLM, CEC (California Energy Commission), California Department of Fish Game, The Nature Conservancy 1991
• l = Lewis, Russ, Bureau of Land Management, personal communication.
• m = MacLeod, Dr. M., and C. Cunningham, personal commuication
• n = Nature Conservancy herbarium specimen
• r = McCormick, Randi, personal communication
• s = Dr. Paula Schiffman, Specimens at CSU Northridge
• t = Twisselman, E. C., "A Flora of the Temblor Range...," The Wassmann Journal of Biology v. 14 #2, 1956
• v = van de Hoek, R., "CPNA Floristic Checklist," Bureau of Land Management, 1990
• w = Woods, C., "An Inventory of the Terrestrial Vertebrates,   Appendix A," thesis, 1982
• W = Dr. Dirk Walters, Cal Poly

Other references:

Hickman, J., The Jepson Manual, UC Press, Berk., 1993.
Munz & Keck, A California Flora, UC Press, L.A., 1959.