United States, California, San Bernardino, South of Barstow, E of Barstow College and H-247/Bars[t]ow Road, along powerline road, downslope towards Marine Core logistics base.
34.861462 -117.016028 NAD83
11 498535E 3857680N
774 meters
2540ft.
Limited to washes or along roadsides. Creosote bush scrub habitat. Associates: Larrea tridentata, Ambrosia dumosa, Hymenoclea salsola, Psorothamnus fremontii, Ephedra californica, Cylindropuntia echinocarpa, C. ramosissima, Bromus spp., Schismus, Erodium cicutarium, Guillenia lasiophylla, Amsinckis tessellata, and Camissonia claviformis.
Stout colorful annual herb or biennial. Uncommon as patchy waif occurrence. Pls generally with strongly pinnate leaves, early withering rosettes.