iNaturalist Journal Entry #1: San Bernardino Mountains

As I visited many locations to observe plants both by water and away from water. One of the locations visited were in the San Bernardino mountains were water levels are relatively low at during the month of October. The flowers that were found in that location were short mustard plants, white clover, rabbitfoot grass, california incense cedar, japanese honeysuckle, as well as other flowering plants. I found it interesting how the plants that were observed although were part of the phylum magnoliophyta, the plants did not present much color or flowers. The flowers appeared to be more dry and have xerophytic qualities such like being waxy, and fuzzy( hairy). As stated in the following link to scholarly article below, alpine plants are resilience to both drought and freezing temperatures also lower in oxygen levels and humidity; the plants cell membranes are able to tolerate dehydration.

Scholarly Articles:
"Alpine plant life: functional plant ecology of high mountain ecosystems; with 47 tables"

Posted on Δεκέμβριος 09, 2017 0856 ΜΜ by ahacobian3