Eastern Mojave Vegetation Pahranagat Range, Lincoln County, Nevada.
 
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40 km (25 mi) long and 9.7 km (6 mi) wide

S of Mount Irish Range, bounded on the E by the East Pahranagat Range, on the S by Desert Valley and on the W by Tikaboo Valley, 14.3 km (9 mi) SW of the community of Crystal Springs.

Post (1956) states that Searls collected Swertia albomarginata in the Pahranagat Range.


Elevation: 7441ft, 2268m.

Articles that refer to this location:

  • Eastern Mojave Geology -- A Botanist's View: 172240
  • Nevada Highway 375: 18800
  • Two occurrences of Desert Elkweed Swertia albomarginata (S. Watson) Kuntze Gentianaceae in the Mid Hills, Eastern Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California: in Pahranagat Range
  • U. S. Highway 93: near Pahranagat Range
   

Literature Referring To This Location:

  • Post, Douglas M. 1956. Studies in the Gentianaceae: Frasera and Swertia of North America. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. 1956..
  • Tiehm, Arnold. 1985. Fanny Searls (1851-1939). Brittonia. 37(1):36-40.

Interesting Collections made at or near this location:

  Swertia albomarginata

    Searls

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Date and time this article was prepared:9:46:56 AM, 5/8/2008