Carl O. Gerhardy Wildlife Sanctuary

Location:

Carl O. Gerhardy Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Antelope Valley along 240th St. East, between Avenue "M" and Avenue "N".

Size:
639 acres

Elevation:
? feet above sea level.

Accessibility:
The sanctuary is easily accessible by the paved East Avenue "O" east to 240th St. East left to Avenue "N" (dirt road heading East)

Plant Communities:
The dominant plant communities here are Joshua Tree Woodland and Creosote Bush Scrub. The two communities are about equally represented. Other shrubs such as Mormon Tea, Winter Fat and Cheesebush, and many annual and perennial wildflowers are common throughout the sanctuary. The area affords an excellent view of the Antelope Valley, desert buttes, and lofty peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains to the South.

Present Condition and General Observations:
Gerhardy is in good natural condition except along the roadways where illegal dumping of trash (old furniture, washing machines, computer monitors and other garbage) is an ongoing problem. This is one of the most picturesque of the Sanctuaries and it is hard to conceive the thoughtless behavior to deface such a natural treasure.

Native Wildflowers of Carl O. Gerhardy

?Mojave Sand-Verbena	(Abronia pogonantha)
?Hairy Sand-Verbena	(Abronia villosa)
Indian Rice Grass	(Achnatherum hymenoides)
Burrobush	(Ambrosia dumosa)
Checker Fiddleneck	(Amsinckia tessellata)
*California Coreopsis	(Coreopsis californica)
Mojave Sun Cup	(Camissonia campestris)
Brown-Eyed Primrose	(Camissonia claviformis)
Fremont Pincushion	(Chaenactis fremontii)
Bigelow Coreopsis	(Coreopsis bigelovii)
Popcornflower	(Cryptantha circumcissa)
?Popcornflower	(Cryptantha micrantha)
?Popcornflower	(Cryptantha pterocaria)
Mormon tea	(Ephedra nevadensis)
White Mallow	(Eremalche exilis)
?Slender Buckwheat	(Eriogonum gracillimum)
Yellow Turban	(Eriogonum pusillum)
Pringle Eriophyllum	(Eriophyllum pringlei)
Wallace Eriophyllum	(Eriophyllum wallacei)
Winter Fat	(Krascheninnikovia lanata)
Creosote Bush	(Larrea tridentata)
Goldfields	(Lasthenia californica)
Lessingia	(Lessingia g. glandulifera)
Parry Linanthus	(Linanthus parryae)
Desert Calico	(Loeseliastrum mathewsii)
Royal Desert Lupine	(Lupinus odoratus)
?Lupin	(Lupinus sp.)
?Anderson Boxthorn	(Lycium andersonii)
?Cooper Boxthorn	(Lycium cooperi)
?Rabbit-thorn	(Lycium pallidum)
Desert Dandelion	(Malocothrix glabrata)
Desert Pennyroyal	(Monardella exilis)
Dune Primrose	(Oenothera deltoides)
Yellow Desert Primrose	(Oenothera primiveris)
(rare)Silver Cholla	(Opuntia echinocarpa)
Wild-Rhubarb	(Rumex hymenosepalus)
Russian Thistle	(Salsola tragus)
Mediterranean Grass	(Schismus barbatus)
?Long-beaked Twist-flower	(Streptanthella longirostris)
Cotton-Thorn	(Tetradymia axillaris longispina)
Joshua Tree	(Yucca brevifolia)

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