This stand is a forb and grass wildflower field on shallow volcanic soil on an exposed slope. The mix of forbs here occur in a repeating pattern across the landscape in small patches, intermixed with bedrock outcrops of Parvisedum pumilum-Vulpia sp.-Lasthenia sp.-Moss, and deeper soil patches of Taeniatherum caput-medusae- Bromus hordeaceus-Forbs, etc.