University of California, Riverside Plant Herbarium (UCR)
UCR0101899
UCR-BPS-225153
UCR-225153
Boerhavia coccinea Mill.
Nyctaginaceae
Steve Boyd
11657B
2005-07-30
2005-7-30
Gary Wallace
United States, California, Riverside, Chino Canyon, southern base of the range, upper end of main parking lot at Valley (lower) station of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
33.83731 -116.61319
793 meters (2601ft)
Disturbed parking lot adjacent to lush desert riparian woodland with Platanus racemosa, Salix laevigata, Salix lasiolepis, Alnus rhombifolia, Vitis californica (?), Acacia greggii, Eriodictyon crassifolium, Lepidospartum squamatum, Artemisia dracunculus, Datura wrightii, Solanum douglasii, and Phacelia ramosissima.
Flowering & Fruiting
Perennial herb, sprawling habit, flowers dark red. Scarce, growing in crack between asphalt pavement and concrete of stairs.