FISH CREEK MEADOWS AND UPPER FISH CREEK TRAIL, SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS
AUGUST 2008 PAGE ONE
Photographs by Michael Charters
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The Upper Fish Creek Trail has its beginning at a parking area along Forest Road 1N05, 7.4 miles from the signed entrance road to Heart Bar Campground on SR38 about five miles east of Barton Flats, and intersecting a junction with the upper end of the Fish Creek/ Aspen Grove Trail in 0.69 miles, passing Fish Creek Meadows, and reaching Fish Creek Saddle 5 miles from the start and Mine Shaft Saddle 6 miles from the start. At that point, you are 3-1/2 miles from San Gorgonio summit. See Tom Chester's plant guide here. |
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Broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae Asteraceae |
Sapphire woolstar Eriastrum sapphirinum Polemoniaceae |
Parry's hulsea Hulsea vestita ssp. parryi Asteraceae |
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San Gabriel beardtongue Penstemon labrosus Scrophulariaceae |
Parish's buckwheat Eriogonum parishii Polygonaceae |
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Hoary-aster Machaeranthera canescens var. canescens Asteraceae |
Grinnell's penstemon Penstemon grinnellii var. grinnellii Scrophulariaceae |
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San Bernardino beardtongue Penstemon caesius Scrophulariaceae |
Rose sage Salvia pachyphylla Lamiaceae |
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Rayless fleabane Erigeron aphanactis var. congenstus Asteraceae |
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Southern monardella Monardella australis Lamiaceae |
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Spineless horsebrush Tetradymia canescens Asteraceae |
Nevin's bird's beak Cordylanthus nevinii Scrophulariaceae |
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Martin's paintbrush Castilleja applegatei ssp. martinii Scrophulariaceae |
Munz's buckwheat Eriogonum umbellatum var. munzii Polygonaceae |
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Wheeler's cinquefoil Potentilla wheeleri Rosaceae |
Wax currant Ribes cereum Grossulariaceae |
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Groundsmoke
Gayophytum cf. diffusum ssp. parviflorum Onagraceae |
Willow-herb Epilobium ciliatum ssp. ciliatum Onagraceae |
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