Query: G.N.I.S.

See also: Mono Basin. Rush Creek delta.

Elevation: 8852ft, 2698m.

Articles that refer to this location:

• Cowtrack Mountain Road, Mono County, California: on flat near top;  on flat near top;  above the switchback; 
• Field Notes: 25-Jun-07 on Cowtrack Mtn;  26-Jun-07 at Rush Ck delta; 
• A Checklist Flora of the Mono Lake Basin, Mono County, California and Mineral County, Nevada.: near Cowtrack Mtn; 

Literature Referring To This Location:

• Bursik, Marcus and Kerry Sieh. 1989. Range Front Faulting and Volcanism in the Mono Basin, Eastern California. Journal of Geophysical Research. 94(111):15,587-15,609. {TAS-pdf}
• Gilbert, C. M., M. N. Christensen, Yehya Al-Rawi, and K. R. Lajoie. 1968. Structural and Volcanic History of Mono Basin, California-Nevada. pp. 275-329 in Coats, Robert R., Richard L. Hay, and Charles A. Anderson. Studies in Volcanology: A Memoir in Honor of Howel Williams. Memoir 116. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 1968. {TAS}
• Tizzania, P., P. Berardinoa, F. Casua, P. Euilladesc, M. Manzoa, G.P. Ricciardif, G. Zenia, and R. Lanaria. 2007. Surface deformation of Long Valley caldera and Mono Basin, California, investigated with the SBAS-InSAR approach. Remote Sensing of Environment. 108(3):277-289.

Area Plant Lists that contain this location:

• Area Plant List for Mono Basin.

View of Cowtrack Mountain Road from CA Hwy 120	Mono Lake and the Mono Basin as seen from Cowtrack Mountain	Summit of Cowtrack Mountain	Flat area near top of Cowtrack Mountain	A portion of Cowtrack Mountain Road
View southwest from Cowtrack Mountain	View across Mono Basin to Cowtrack Mountain	Meadow in upper Bridgeport Canyon	Cowtrack Mountain as seen from Rush Creek delta.	Cowtrack Mountain from the GPS station.
Southeast shore of Mono Lake as seen from Cowtrack Mountain	Adobe Hills Spillway from Cowtrack Mountain	Post-burn vegetation patterns seen from Cowtrack Mountain	Cowtrack Mountain with the top burned off by the Indian Fire of 2013.

Species collected at or near this location.

This list summarizes plants collected or observed at this specific, named location. It does not include plants collected or observed at nearby named or unnamed locations. It may be more instructive to use the Area Lists that contain this location.

• TAS – The plant was collected by Tom Schweich.
• Oth – The plant was collected by someone, but not Tom.
• Obs – The plant was observed, but not collected.

Asteraceae

Astereae

Solidagininae

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. viscidiflorus. Yellow Rabbitbrush (Oth) CC:?

Senecioneae

Tetradymia canescens DC. Spineless Horsebush (Oth) CC:?

Chenopodiaceae

Chenopodium desiccatum A. Nelson. Aridland Goosefoot (Oth) CC:3

Polemoniaceae

Linanthus pungens (Torr.) J. M. Porter & L. A. Johnson. Granite Prickly Phlox (TAS) CC:6

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Date and time this article was prepared:3:14:53 PM, 8/1/2026.