The Marble Mountain Wilderness Area
Butterfly on woolly sunflower (Eriophyllum lanatum) Western columbine (Aquilegia formosa), Pacific Crest Trail The Marble Mountains are a beautiful, pristine wilderness area in the heart of the Klamath National Forest. Leave the Flowers for Others to Enjoy! This guide contains the more common wildflower species that you can expect to see throughout the Mar- Everyone has a right to enjoy the splendor of bles. Amazing displays of wildflowers can be seen along most trails from July to August, and the highest wildflower displays. Picking wildflowers and Common number of wildflower species can be found in open meadow or rocky areas. If you travel off established trails, do not blaze trees or build rock piles to mark your route, and spread out to avoid forming new foot- plants affects population health by reducing the paths. Within the wilderness you should expect to find no shelters, picnic tables, facilities, or other conven- production of seed . Transplanting wild-flowers, Wildflowers of the iences. Self-sufficiency is a priority in wilderness travel. For maps and more information visit the by digging plants, is rarely successful and against Salmon/Scott River Ranger District Office, or http://www.fs.usda.gov/klamath/. policy without a permit. Take photographs and Marble Mountain leave the flowers for others! Wilderness Area
Big Meadows View from Wright’s Lakes Trail
Text, Design and Photography by Danika Carlson, Salmon/Scott River Achillea millefolium Valeriana sitchensis Anaphalis margaritacea Ranger District Botanist, Klamath National Forest, Pacific Southwest Re- valerian gion, USDA Forest Service common yarrow pearly everlasting
This information is subject to change. For current information contact: Salmon/Scott River Ranger District 11263 N. Highway 3 Fort Jones, CA 96032 (530)468-5351 (voice) or (530)468-1298 (TDD) Gentiana calycosa near Boulder Peak
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Trillium ovatum Maianthemum racemosum Mimulus guttatus Eriogonum umbellatum Ipomopsis aggregata Castilleja miniata Spiraea splendens Spiraea douglasii pacific trillium false Solomon’s seal common monkey-flower sulphur buckwheat scarlet gilia great red paintbrush dense-flowered spiraea Douglas spiraea
Orthocarpus cuspidatus Frasera radiata Calochortus elegans Fritillaria affinis Drymocallis glandulosa Erigeron glacialis Monardella odoratissima Lupinus polyphyllus Northwestern mariposa lily sticky cinquefoil ssp. copelandii monument plant checker lily Copeland’s owl’s-clover subalpine fleabane mountain Monardella bigleaf lupine
Crepis pleurocarpa Eriophyllum lanatum Senecio triangularis Arnica cordifolia Chamerion angustifolium Stachys rigida Linum lewisii Phlox diffusa hawksbeard woolly sunflower arrowleaf groundsel heartleaf arnica ssp. circumvagum rough hedgenettle Lewis’ flax spreading phlox fireweed
Helenium bigelovii Castilleja arachnoidea Agoseris aurantiaca Lilium pardalinum Sidalcea oregana Castilleja schizotricha Penstemon parvulus Delphinium glaucum Bigelow’s sneezeweed cobwebby paintbrush orange agoseris leopard lily checkerbloom split-hair Indian paintbrush slight penstemon glaucus larkspur