Eastern Mojave Vegetation Oregon Route 31  
 

Edited by Tom Schweich  

Home Page  Oregon Route 31 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Oregon that runs between the Central Oregon cities of La Pine and Lakeview. OR 31 traverses most of the Fremont Highway No. 19 of the Oregon state highway system,[2] named after John C. Frémont. The entire length of OR 31 is part of the Outback Scenic Byway, though the byway extends further south beyond the end of OR 31, to the California border.

Other articles:
• US Highway 97:   at OR 31;  

Junction: US Highway 97, just south of La Pine.

 

Fort Rock Junction

Other articles:
• Field Notes:  Coll. No. 3539, 30 Sep 2025;

Locations: McCarty Butte.  

Ericameria nauseosa.

Plants of the Great Basin
California and Nevada
Asteraceae

Ericameria nauseosa (Pall. ex Pursh) G. I. Nesom & G. I. Baird var. oreophila (A.Nelson) G.L.Nesom & G.I.Baird.  Great Basin Rabbitbrush.

McCarty Butte, Lake County, Oregon. Roadside beside Oregon Highway 31, 4.7 km. east of McCarty Butte, the nearest GNIS-recognized geographical feature, 33 miles southeast of La Pine, Oregon. 43.32194°N, 121.17361°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 1379 m.

Tom Schweich 3539. 30-Sep-2025

Coll. No. 3539, 30 September 2025, characters observed: Perennial shrub, 40 cm.; Stem, proximal, dull white, tomentose, resinous, almost to the involucres; Leaves, cauline, alternate, sessile, blade 20-37 mm. × (barely) 1 mm. wide, reduced distally, sulcate (not flat), linear, entire, tomentose; Heads, discoid; Involucre, 10 mm. × 4 mm. wide, obconic, glabrous; Phyllaries, unequal, 4±-series, outer << rest of involucre, inner 7-9 mm. × 1.8-1.2 mm. wide, glabrous, mid-vein, ±raised, visible along length, margins, flat, scarious, tips, acute; Receptacle, epaleate; Flowers of 1 kind; Disk flowers, #5±, tube 8-9 mm. + lobes 1 mm., yellow, throat expanding gradually, few short hairs proximally, otherwise glabrous; Pappus, many, well-developed bristles, 7 mm., ±equal; Anther, base rounded; Style, filiform, 2-branched, brush-like appendages, style 8.63 mm. + stigma 1.75 mm. + appendage 1.3 mm. (n=4); Stigma, > style appendages; Cypsela, 4-6 mm. × 0.6 mm. wide, compressed front-to-back, brown, hairy. Corolla lobes short for var. oreophila, but otherwise that seems to be the best fit.

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Coll. No. 3539, Ericameria nauseosa var. oreophila.
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Coll. No. 3539, Ericameria nauseosa var. oreophila.
 

Silver Lake

 
 

Picture Rock Pass Summit, 4,830 feet (1470 m.)

Literature Cited:
- Negrini, Robert M., Jonathan O. Davis, and Kenneth L. Verosub, 1984.

Other articles:
• Field Notes:   at Summer Lake;

Locations: Summer Lake.  

Summer Lake.

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Cliffs above Summer Lake.
Summer Lake Safety Rest Area.
About 10 km north of the present (Summer Lake) lake margin, the Ana River has eroded into fine-grained lacustrine sediments and has exposed as much as 16 m of vertical section. The nature of these sediments and their paleomagnetic signal strongly suggest that the zone of anomalous directions represents actual geomagnetic field behavior that corresponds with the record from Mono Lake (Negrini, Davis, and Verosub, 1984).
 

Hunter Hill Summit, elevation 4,205 feet (1,282 m.)

Other articles:
• Field Notes:   at NF 29;  

Junction:NF 29 “Government Harvey Road”

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View to the southeast past Harvey Ranch to the south end of Summer Lake.
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View to the north along the west side of Summer Lake.
 

Paisley

Paisley is a city in Lake County, Oregon, United States. It is along Oregon Route 31 between Summer Lake and Lake Abert. The population was 250 at the 2020 census.

Other articles:
• U. S. Highway 395:   at OR 31;  

Junction: US Highway 395, just north of US Highway 395.

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Date and time this article was prepared: 4/4/2026 7:57:57 PM