Taxon: Ambrosia carduacea (Greene) Payne
Family: Asteraceae

Collector: Wendy C. Hodgson   8175   

Date: 21 April 1994

Locality: Mexico, Baja California Sur, Sierra San Francisco, Canon Santa Theresa, ca 1/2 mile south of junction with Arroyo Solidad. In small side drainage on west side of canon, along canon floor and creek; and on slopes.

27.645  -113.0705

Verbatim Coordinates: 27d 38m 42s N; 113d 4m 13.8s W

Elevation: 515 meters

Verbatim Elevation: 1689ft.

Associated Species: Ambrosia carduacea, Paullinia sonorensis, Janusia californica, Vallesia laciniata, Aralia scopulorum, Hyptis decipiens, Erythea brandegeei, Eucnide rupestris, Ambrosia carduacea, Paullinia sonorensis, Lenna minuscula, Rhynchosia, Parkinsonia aculeata, Dodonacea viscosa, Nicotiana glauca, Celtis reticulata, C. Pallida, Vitis, Euphorbia xanti, Ambrosia ambrosioides, Amauria rotundifolia, Posopis; on slopes Jatropha cinerea, Lophocereus schotti, Ferocactus, Agave cerulata, Pachycereus pringlei, Bursera microphylla, Stenocereus thurberi, Ficus palmeri, Nicotiana trigonophylla, Lysiloma candida, Hibiscus biseptus, Ruellia californica, Mammillaria, Opuntia.

Description: Locally common tall herbaceous perennial (suffrutescent?), much branched with large leaves, fruits old.

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