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unknown desert plant

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Field Notes

Description:

Dried up former inflorescence. Found near The Racetrack in Death Valley National Park, CA.

Habitat:

Desert.

Species ID Suggestions

Clasping Pepperweed

Lepidium perfoliatum

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Travis Morse
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Comments (3)
CindyBinghamKeiser
This might be a Russian Thistle. There are two in Inyo county, Salsola gobicola and Salsola paulsenii.
alicelongmartin
Very Interesting, would make quite an attractive dried bouquet.

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PublishedOctober 31, 2011

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