"This is our livelihood," Mr. Records, now 73, said as he looked out over the flat valley toward the Funeral Mountains in California.
It is named after a population in the Funeral Mountains, in Death Valley National Park.
Mine is the Funeral Mountain.
It was located just south of Furnace, near the Funeral Mountains in Death Valley.
In this case, the dead end is Death Valley, which lies just beyond the Funeral Mountains, clearly visible from the summit of Yucca.
The plant grows in the desert scrub on the slopes of the Panamint, Black, and Funeral Mountains.
The specific epithet, "funerea", relates to where the plant was first found, in the Funeral Mountains along the California-Nevada border.
Good outcrops can be seen in the southern Funeral Mountains outside the park and in Butte Valley within park borders.
Thrusted areas can be seen at Schwaub Peak in the southern part of the Funeral Mountains.
There is also some evidence that the Grapevine Mountains may have slid off the Funeral Mountains.