Utah Valley University Herbarium

Label

Accession No. 14518 
Family Solanaceae 
Species Lycium cooperi A. Gray
Collector Information R. Van Buren  (1196)  06 May 2006 , with J.G. Cooper
Voucher Voucher for "Woody Plants of Utah" by R. Van Buren, K.T. Harper, J. Cooper 
Geography United States,  Utah, Washington County
Lat./Long. 37°  1' 49.59" N, 113°  59 ' 51.98" W at 2345 feet (714 m)
Locality along the dirt rd on the eastern edge of Beaver Dam Wash, ca. 2 miles N of the Arizona State Line; 
Ecology in a wash; 
Climate NCDC temperatures, daily high (red), daily average (green) and daily low (blue), from 1970 to 2000 at this location.   NCDC average monthly precipitation from 1970 to 2000 at this location.

Taxonomy


Synonyms recognized by ITIS (bold taxon is currently accepted):

     Lycium cooperi Gray

Common Name(s): Cooper wolfberry, Cooper's wolfberry, peach thorn.

Taxonomic Hierarchy: (ITIS TSN=30539, click for more information and references)

        Kingdom: Plantae
            Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
                Division: Magnoliophyta
                    Class: Magnoliopsida
                        Subclass: Asteridae
                            Order: Solanales
                                Family: Solanaceae
                                    Genus: Lycium
                                        Species: Lycium cooperi
                                                                                            

Images

Images of other samples of the same species:
specimen image: 08662s1.jpg 
08662

Nearby Accessions


Other accessions in the database collected near this one:

Accession Name Dist., dir.
12544 Adenophyllum cooperi     same section
10319 Ambrosia eriocentra      "woolly bur-sage" 473 ft. NE
14513 Ambrosia salsola     same section
10314 Amphipappus fremontii  var. spinosus   "Fremont's chaffbush" 473 ft. NE
10316 Amsinckia tessellata      "bristly fiddleneck" 473 ft. NE
14511 Bebbia juncea  var. aspera  same section
14520 Brickellia atractyloides     same section
10303 Camissonia refracta      "narrow-leaf desert primrose" same section
10315 Chaenactis fremontii      "Fremont's pincushion" 473 ft. NE
10309 Chorizanthe rigida      "rigid spineflower" 473 ft. NE
10254 Cryptantha micrantha      "purple-rooted forget-me-not" same section
10304 Cryptantha pterocarya  var. cycloptera   "winged-nut forget-me-not" same section
14514 Ephedra nevadensis     same section
10305 Eriastrum sparsiflorum      "Great Basin woollystar" 473 ft. NE
10318 Eriogonum fasciculatum      "Eastern Mojave wild buckwheat" 473 ft. NE
14525 Eriogonum fasciculatum  var. polifolium  same section
14517 Eriogonum fasciculatum  var. polifolium  1841 ft. NW
10317 Eschscholzia minutiflora      "pygmy poppy" 473 ft. NE
14526 Krameria erecta     same section
14497 Krameria grayi     2395 ft. NW
14521 Krameria grayi     same section
10302 Linanthus bigelovii      "Bigelow's linanthus" same section
10255 Linanthus demissus      "desertsnow" same section
10311 Lupinus concinnus  ssp. orcuttii   "Orcutt's lupine" 473 ft. NE
10310 Malacothrix glabrata      "smooth desert-dandelion" 473 ft. NE
10253 Monoptilon bellidiforme      "daisy desertstar" same section
10306 Nama demissum      "purplemat" 473 ft. NE
10252 Nemacladus glanduliferus      "glandular threadplant" same section
10308 Phacelia ambigua      "notch-leaf scorpionweed" 473 ft. NE
10312 Plantago insularis     473 ft. NE
14516 Psilostrophe cooperi     1841 ft. NW
10307 Stylocline micropoides      "woollyhead nest-straw" 473 ft. NE

Locale


Nearby locations from the USGS Geographic Name Information System (GNIS) database:

Name County Dist., dir. Elevation (ft.) 7.5' Quad Name
Beaver Dam Wash (Valley) Washington County, UT 2.1 mi. S   Docs Pass 
Mormon Well (Well) Mohave County, AZ 3.6 mi. S 2136  Littlefield 
Welcome Creek (Stream) Mohave County, AZ 3.9 mi. S   West Mountain Peak 
Initial Monument (Locale) Lincoln County, NV 3.6 mi. SW 2546  Terry Benches 
Burgess Wash (Valley) Washington County, UT 4.2 mi. N   Castle Cliff 
Snow Spring Wash (Stream) Lincoln County, NV 4.6 mi. N   Scarecrow Peak 
Snow Spring Wash (Valley) Washington County, UT 4.6 mi. N 2562  Terry Benches 
Reber Wash (Valley) Washington County, UT 5.4 mi. N   Castle Cliff 
Terry Benches (Bench) Lincoln County, NV 4.7 mi. NW 2815  Terry Benches 

Links

Taxon Links for species Lycium cooperi  A. Gray

CalPhotos, Berkeley Digital Library Project

CNPS Manual of California Vegetation Database

USDA Plants database
University of Washington Herbarium: Plants of Washington (images)

Texas A&M University: Image Library (images)

Lady Bird Johnson's Wildflower Center

Google Images

External link to this species in the UVU Herbarium:
http://herbarium.UVU.edu/virtual/search.asp?taxon=Lycium+cooperi

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