Stuck in a rut:
The population of plants was quite small, so we were extremely careful to make sure we didn't step on any. This made
photography of some of the plants impossible because we just couldn't get close enough to them. But always, always, err on the side
of protecting the plants.
On one side of the population there was a deep water-cut drainage, and it provided a convenient place to set up a tripod to photograph, as
you can see Beth doing. Do you see the white-flowering bush at the top margin of the photograph, slightly to the right of where
Beth is looking? Perhaps you can pick out the tiny reddish D. gibsonii rosettes clustering
at the base of the shrub.
While Beth continued to photograph, I ranged around the area, but could not find any other D. gibsonii
populations. I never like it when much of a plant's entire population is so close to a road. I hope that
other as-yet undiscovered populations occur someplace else.
