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.

Broom snakeweed
Gutierrezia sarothrae
Asteraceae
[Named for Pedro Gutiérrez Bueno, 1745-1826]

Parry's hulsea
Hulsea vestita ssp. parryi
Asteraceae
[Named for Charles Christopher Parry,1823-1890]

San Gabriel beardtongue
Penstemon labrosus
Scrophulariaceae

Parish's buckwheat
Eriogonum parishii
Polygonaceae
[Named for the Parish brothers]

San Bernardino beardtongue
Penstemon caesius
Scrophulariaceae

Hoary-aster
Machaeranthera canescens var. canescens
Asteraceae

Rayless fleabane
Erigeron aphanactis var. congenstus
Asteraceae

Southern monardella
Monardella australis
Lamiaceae

Spineless horsebrush
Tetradymia canescens
Asteraceae

Nevin's bird's beak
Cordylanthus nevinii
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Joseph Cook Nevin, 1835-1913]

Martin's paintbrush
Castilleja applegatei ssp. martinii
Scrophulariaceae

Wheeler's cinquefoil
Potentilla wheeleri
Rosaceae

Groundsmoke
Gayophytum cf. diffusum ssp. parviflorum
Onagraceae

Willow-herb
Epilobium ciliatum ssp. ciliatum
Onagraceae