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Eriogonum inflatum var deflatum sounds like a joke binomial, but indeed it is not. Here we are, dicking around in a remote Mojave Desert Mountain Range at Sunset checking out the point of contact between two different bodies of rock (formations). We meet our old friend Funeral Sage, Salvia funerea, somehow flowering despite growing directly out of a crevice in a limestone rockwall after an exceptionally dry winter. We also encounter the poorly named "Schott's Pygmy Cedar", doing the same thing. We inspect some marble we encounter in the field and profanely rant about some or another such nonsense before stopping to look at a Leafless, 8 foot tall milkweed, Asclepias albicans.
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