Celebrating Wildflowers - Pacific Southwest Region

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	Pacific Southwest Region Mt. Eddy wildflowers, Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Photo by Julie Kierstead Nelson. California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica), L. E. Horton Research Natural Area, Six Rivers National Forest. Photo by Sydney Carothers. Antelope brush (Purshia glandulosa), Inyo National Forest. Photo by Gerald and Buff Corsi, California Academy of Sciences. Eighteen national forests in California make up the national forest lands of the Pacific Southwestern Region of the U.S. Forest Service. Much of the Region is within the California floristic province, unique in the United States for its Mediterranean climate of dry, hot summers and wet or snowy winters. Many wildflowers of the California national forests grow nowhere else in the world. From ancient rock gardens to sagebrush steppes to squishy mountain fens, California's native plants are spectacular! Celebrating Wildflower Events 2008 - Jepson Herbarium: A Series of Workshops on Botanical, Evolutionary, and Ecological Subjects for 2008 (University of California, Berkeley) Viewing Areas California Baldwin Meadow - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Bear Basin Butte Botanical Area - Six Rivers National Forest Bear Creek Trail - Angeles National Forest The Big Bear Discovery Center - San Bernardino National Forest Bodfish Piute Cypress Grove - Sequoia National Forest Butterfly Valley Botanical Area - Plumas National Forest Cuesta Ridge Botanical Special Interest Area - Los Padres National Forest Donner Camp Picnic Area - Tahoe National Forest Figueroa Mountain Recreation Area - Los Padres National Forest Frederick's Meadow - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Gillem Bluff - Modoc National Forest Horse Mountain Botanical Area - Six Rivers National Forest Kangaroo Lake Botanical Special Interest Area: The Fen Trail - Klamath National Forest Laguna Meadow - Cleveland National Forest Loney Meadow Interpretive Trail - Tahoe National Forest Lyons Creek Trail - Eldorado National Forest McGee Canyon - Inyo National Forest Meeks Bay Trail - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Nelder Grove - Sierra National Forest North Baldwin Lake Ecological Reserve - San Bernardino National Forest North Fork Smith Botanical Area - Six Rivers National Forest Parker Bench - Inyo National Forest Pine Creek Valley - Lassen National Forest Rock Creek Road - Eldorado National Forest Scott Mountain Crest from China Mountain to Cory Peak - Shasta-Trinity and Klamath National Forests Slate Mountain Botanical Area - Sequoia National Forest Sonora Pass and Saint Mary’s Pass - Stanislaus National Forest Squaw Valley Creek Trail - Shasta-Trinity National Forest Taylor Creek Visitor Center - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Trail of the Gargoyles - Stanislaus National Forest Trumbull Peak Historic and Botanic Special Interest Area - Stanislaus National Forest Waters Gulch Trail - Shasta-Trinity National Forest Wildflower Photographs Drummond's anemone (Anemone drummondii). Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU). Photo by Steve Matson, 2005. Scarlet milkvetch (Astragalus coccineus). San Bernardino National Forest. Photo by Chris Wagner, 2005. Yellow mariposa (Calochortus luteus). Los Padres National Forest. Photo by Christopher Christie, 2005. Speckled Clarkia (Clarkia cylindrica). Los Padres National Forest. Photo by Christopher Christie, 2005. Bach's calicoflower (Downingia bacigalupii). Modoc National Forest. Photo by Gary A. Monroe, 2002. Sand lily (Leucocrinum montanum). Modoc National Forest. Photo by Cheryl Beyer, 2005. Cliff maids (Lewisia cotyledon). Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Photo by Ken DeCamp, 2006. Tricolor monkeyflower (Mimulus tricolor). Stanislaus National Forest. Photo by Steve Schoenig, 2001.
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