Eastern Mojave Vegetation White Mesa, San Juan County, Utah.
 
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Query: G.N.I.S.

See also: Bluff.

See also: Bluff.

Mesa south of Blanding, north of Bluff.

There are two collections of Swertia albomarginata described as on top of a mesa 11 miles north of Bluff. That location is probably along the highway towards the southern end of White Mesa.


Elevation: 5709ft, 1740m.

Articles that refer to this location:

  • Two occurrences of Desert Elkweed Swertia albomarginata (S. Watson) Kuntze Gentianaceae in the Mid Hills, Eastern Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California: in Utah
  • US Highway 191: at White Mesa
   

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..

Interesting Collections made at or near this location:

  Swertia albomarginata

    A. H. Holmgren with Sherman Hansen 3391
    Basset Maguire, A. G. Richards, Ruth Maguire, Ruth
    Basset Maguire, et al.

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Date and time this article was prepared:12:41:10 PM, 5/15/2008