In Sandy soils in floodplains of the Kaweah River.
New plant for Tulare County with no records in CCH, CalFlora, or iNaturalist.
Unless it’s all farinosa up here…?
Several specimen growing under the cover of the cactus. Some old inflorescences were 40 cm long or longer
I experienced so many emotions in the span of a minute here. First joy at coming across Dudleya, the first for this genus this day, second anger/sadness at realizing these were unearthed. Third panic as I tried to dig into the earth with my hiking stick to make a little place for them to not be so exposed and fear that someone might see me and think that I was doing the opposite of what I was. Lastly, relief