021800 New list of plants (still need to confirm if Yucca is kept or dropped)

NE: California Live Oak -- (refer to picture NW 7)
N Borrego - low plants. Need to choose a couple for generic (use db ref)
NW: Salton Sea -- Barren except for sea and sand
W: Julian -- Pine (refer to W pics)
Center -- Ocotillo (refer to center series pix and db)
E: Desert -- Creosote (refer to db)
SW Mountain Empire: Oak and rolling pasture... field furrows?
S: Agriculture -- Haystacks (see pic S4) and palms (can use the pd version you already showed inworld)
SE: Dunes (generic low plants - can use same from borrego choice)

The following links go to pages from UC Berkeley's Digital Library Project's CERES Database. Each contains a selection of images linked to large jpeg versions for reference. The Landscape links contain images from various areas of Imperial and San Diego Counties just as a record for colors of sand and general characteristics.

Flora | Landscapes


 
CONFIRMED FLORA (pine is also confirmed but must refer to Julian photos - series W)
 
Ocotillo - Fouquieria splendens

Date Palm - Phoenix dactylifera
  Creosote Bush See also Carol's photo series "E" (she labeled it smoke tree desert but it is really creosote.  

 

UNCONFIRMED FLORA - (for reference only)

Smoke Tree

 hesperocallis undulata - desertlily
asclepias erosa - desert milkweed rumex hymenosepalus wild rhubarb

datura meteloides (database only has other datura including datura wrightii - sacred thornapple) simmondsia chinensis goatnut, jojoba

Salt Cedar -Monanthochloe littoralis (1 image only)

 clematis ligusticifolia - yerba de chiva

argemone platyceras (database contains only argemone corymbosa and argemone munita - prickly poppy)

 rafinesquia californica - California chicory: only 1 pic but 10 pix of rafinesquia neomexicana - desert chicory)

ONE YUCCA - SEE VARIANTS FOR REFERENCE - yucca whipplei -chaparrel yucca
yucca schidigera - mojave yucca also variant yucca whipplei var.parishii 		cuscuta denticulata - desert dodder (only 2 good pix)


Imperial Dunes

Imperial County Landscapes

Imperial Valley and Salton Sea Satellite View
 

Anza Borrego Desert

San Diego Landscapes

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