Bald Mountain (Alison Sheehey web site 4/13/06)
Pteridaceae (brake fern family)
 Pellaea
  • breweri brewer's cliff-brake

    Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) (carrot family)
     Angelica
  • lineariloba
    Cymopterus
  • terebinthinus

    Apocynaceae (dogbane family)
     Apocynum
  • androsaemifolium (inc. A. pumilum) mountain dogbane

    Asteraceae (Compositae) (sunflower family)
     Antennaria pussytoes
  • rosea rosy everlasting
    Artemisia sagebrush
  • dracunculus wild tarragon
  • tridentata great-basin/big sagebrush
    Chaenactis pincushion
  • douglasii dusty maidens, red-stemmed pincushion
    Chrysothamnus rabbitbrush
  • parryi rabbitbrush
  • viscidiflorus curly-leaved rabbitbrush
    Crepis hawksbeard
  • occidentalis western hawksbeard
    Dugaldia
  • hoopesii (Helenium h.)
    Erigeron wild daisy, fleabane
  • breweri
    Hieracium hawkweed
  • horridum shaggy hawkweed
    Hulsea
  • heterochroma great hulsea
    Lactuca lettuce
  • serriola prickly lettuce
    Pectis
  • papposa var. papposa chinch-weed
    Senecio groundsel, ragwort, butterweed
  • canus wooly butterweed
    Stephanomeria
  • tenuifolia
    Tetradymia cotton-thorn, horse brush
  • canescens spineless horsebrush

    Boraginaceae (borage family)
     Cryptantha forget-me-not
  • confertiflora yellow cryptantha
  • echinella
  • incana

    Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) (mustard family)
     Arabis rock-cress
  • holboellii
  • platysperma broad/flat-seeded rock-cress
  • puberula
    Descurainia tansy-mustard
  • incana
    Erysimum wallflower
  • capitatum western wallflower
    Streptanthus jewel-flower
  • cordatus

    Caprifoliaceae (honeysuckle family)
     Sambucus elderberry
  • mexicana (S. caerulea) blue elderberry
    Symphoricarpos waxberry, snowberry
  • rotundifolius (S. vaccinoides)

    Caryophyllaceae (pink family)
     Arenaria sandwort
  • aculeata
  • macradenia
    Silene catchfly, campion
  • bernardina (no vars) (S. montana) mountain campion

    Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot family)
     Chenopodium pigweed, goosefoot
  • fremontii

    Cupressaceae (cypress family)
     Juniperus juniper
  • occidentalis

    Cyperaceae (sedge family)
     Carex sedge
  • sp. sedge

    Ericaceae (heath family)
     Arctostaphylos manzanita
  • patula (A. p. ssp. platyphylla) greenleaf manzanita
    Pyrola wintergreen, shinleaf
  • picta
    Sarcodes snow plant
  • sanguinea snow plant

    Fabaceae (Leguminosae) (pea family)
     Astragalus milkvetch, rattleweed, locoweed
  • lentiginosus freckled milkvetch
  • subvestitus Kern county milkvetch
    Lupinus lupine
  • breweri mat lupine
  • sp.

    Fagaceae (oak family)
     Chrysolepis chinquapin
  • sempervirens (Castanopsis s.) bush chinquapin

    Gentianaceae (gentian family)
     Swertia (inc. Frasera) green gentian
  • tubulosa Kern green-gentian

    Grossulariaceae (Saxifragaceae) (gooseberry family)
     Ribes currant, gooseberry
  • cereum wax/squaw currant

    Hydrophyllaceae (waterleaf family)
     Phacelia
  • austromontana
  • ramosissima branching phacelia

    Lamiaceae (Labiatae) (mint family)
     Monardella
  • linoides flaxleaf rockmint

    Liliaceae (lily family)
     Calochortus mariposa lily
  • invenustus

    Loasaceae (loasa family)
     Mentzelia blazing-star
  • congesta

    Onagraceae (evening-primrose family)
     Gayophytum
  • diffusum

    Pinaceae (pine family)
     Abies fir
  • concolor white fir
  • magnifica California red fir
    Pinus pine
  • contorta ssp. murrayana (P. murrayana) lodgepole pine
  • flexilis limber pine
  • jeffreyi jeffrey pine
  • monophylla singleleaf pinyon pine
  • monticola

    Poaceae (grass family)
     Achnatherum needlegrass
  • hymenoides (Oryzopsis h.) indian rice grass
  • occidentalis
  • pinetorum
    Agropyron
  • desertorum desert wheatgrass
    Bromus brome
  • tectorum downy brome/chess, cheat grass
    Elymus
  • elymoides squirreltail
    Hesperostipa (Stipa)
  • comata (Stipa c.) needle-and-thread grass
    Koeleria
  • macrantha (K. cristata) junegrass
    Melica melic, oniongrass
  • stricta nodding/rock melica
    Poa bluegrass
  • secunda ssp. juncifolia (P. nevadensis) pine/one-sided bluegrass

    Polemoniaceae (phlox family)
     Allophyllum
  • gilioides
    Collomia
  • grandiflora
    Gilia
  • leptantha
    Ipomopsis scarlet gilia
  • aggregata scarlet gilia, skyrocket
    Leptodactylon
  • pungens (no vars) granite gilia, prickly-phlox

    Polygonaceae (buckwheat family)
     Eriogonum wild buckwheat
  • microthecum great basin buckwheat
  • nudum
  • umbellatum
  • wrightii

    Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family)
     Ceanothus California-lilac
  • pinetorum kern ceanothus
    Rhamnus buckthorn
  • tomentella (R. californica tomentella) hoary coffeeberry

    Rosaceae (rose family)
     Cercocarpus mountain-mahogany
  • ledifolius curl-leaf mountain-mahogany
    Holodiscus
  • microphyllus rock spiraea, creambush
    Horkelia
  • tularensis Kern plateu horkelia
    Purshia antelope bush
  • tridentata (inc. P. glandulosa) bitterbrush

    Salicaceae (willow family)
     Salix willow
  • sp.

    Saxifragaceae (saxifrage family)
     Heuchera alumroot
  • rubescens pink alumroot

    Scrophulariaceae (figwort family)
     Castilleja indian paintbrush
  • applegatei (C. breweri)
    Cordylanthus bird's beak
  • eremicus ssp. kernensis Inyon bird's beak
    Keckiella
  • rothrockii var. rothrockii
    Pedicularis lousewort
  • semibarbata dwarf lousewort
    Penstemon beard-tongue
  • caesius
  • newberryi pride of the mountains
  • rostriflorus (P. bridgesii)
  • speciosus (no vars) showy penstemon

    number of families = 30
    number of genera = 72
    number of species, subspecies and varieties = 95