United States, California, Los Angeles, Antelope Valley, along Hwy 138 (West Ave. D), west of the junction with Hwy 14, at intersection with 140th Street, c. 4 mi. SW of Rosamond Dry Lake
34.77653 -118.20261
701 meters (2299ft)
Floodplain characterized by areas of barren alkaline pool beds and drier low hummocks with dark cryptogamic crusts over semialkaline sandy loam soil. Open scrub of Atriplex spp., especially A. polycarpa, Suaeda sp., with numerous annuals, including Lepidium dictyotum, Lasthenia californica, Pectocarya penicillata, Erodium cicutarium, Bromus rubens, Hordeum leporinum, Phacelia fremontii & Schismus barbatus.