Garner Valley Photos
Photos by Lee Reeder, July 13, 2008

These photos were taken in Garner Valley, between Anza and Idylwild in Riverside County, California.

A mountain variant of Desert Sand Verbena brightens the scene of Garner Valley, with the San Jacinto Mountains area of the San Bernardino National Forest in the background. Garner Valley is not a valley as most people imagine, formed by a watercourse. It is actually a sink between two faults in the San Jacinto Fault System, the most active fault system in Southern California.

Birdcage Evening Primrose is another desert plant that has adapted to the sandy, 5,000-foot Garner Valley. If you look closely there are water droplets from a July storm that was dropping rain at the time I took this photo.

The mountain variant of the Desert Sand Verbena lives well in the pine forests and meadows of Garner Valley.