This distinctive plant community runs for maybe a mile in a narrow ribbon between the railroad
and the freeway, on a lava flow that once filled a stream channel. Two kinds of sagebrush, two kinds of juniper,
matchbrush (?), lemonade sumac, rabbitbrush, prickly-pear cactus, hot-rock penstemon, Munro's globemallow, smooth mullein,
and grasses are the larger plants I remember. Almost the entire surface is covered with
mosses and lichens where the grasses haven't taken over.
It is this fecund beauty that will be lost when they build a freeway interchange over this place.