Bluff Lake Reserve | The Wildlands Conservancy

Located at 7,600 feet, Bluff Lake Reserve has towering pines, a 20-acre lake and meadow, and majestic outcrops of quartz monzonite. The reserve includes Southern California’s finest intact mountain marsh and meadow complex that contains the federally threatened Bear Valley bluegrass (Poa ...more ↓

Big Bear checkerbloom 1
Sidalcea pedata
blue elderberry 2
Sambucus nigra caerulea
Bright blue speedwell 3
Veronica serpyllifolia humifusa
bristly mousetail 4
Myosurus apetalus
Bridge penstemon 5
Penstemon rostriflorus
common bracken 6
Pteridium aquilinum
broadleaf lupine 7
Lupinus latifolius
Clustered Lupine 8
Lupinus lepidus confertus
bush chinquapin 9
Chrysolepis sempervirens
California buttercup 10
Ranunculus californicus
California fuchsia 11
Epilobium canum
California geranium 12
Geranium californicum
California goldenrod 13
Solidago velutina californica
Leafy Leopardbane
Arnica chamissonis foliosa
field horsetail 14
Equisetum arvense
Sheep's Sorrel 13
Rumex acetosella
Springbank Clover 15
Trifolium wormskioldii
common dandelion 16
Taraxacum officinale
Common Madia 13
Madia elegans
Crisp Starwort 17
Stellaria crispa
willow dock 19
Rumex salicifolius
Elk Thistle 20
Cirsium scariosum
false Solomon's seal 11
Maianthemum racemosum
Fendler's meadow-rue 13
Thalictrum fendleri
great willow-herb 21
Chamaenerion angustifolium circumvagum
corn mint 22
Mentha arvensis
Flaxleaf Monardella 23
Monardella linoides
Fremont's goosefoot 11
Chenopodium fremontii
granite gilia 20
Linanthus pungens
grant's carpet clover
Trifolium monanthum grantianum
giant red Indian paintbrush 24
Castilleja miniata
Grinnell's Beardtongue 25
Penstemon grinnellii
Kellogg's knotweed
Polygonum polygaloides kelloggii
western dog violet 26
Viola adunca adunca
Wheeler's cinquefoil 27
Potentilla wheeleri
large-leaved avens 28
Geum macrophyllum
lemon lily 29
Lilium parryi
Meadow Baby-blue-eyes 30
Nemophila pedunculata
maiden blue-eyed mary 31
Collinsia parviflora
small white violet 32
Viola macloskeyi
small-headed clover 15
Trifolium microcephalum
Many-flowered Monkeyflower 33
Mimulus floribundus
Manzanitas 34
Arctostaphylos
mexican rush 35
Juncus mexicanus
mat muhly 20
Muhlenbergia richardsonis
milk kelloggia 36
Kelloggia galioides
Miniature Gilia 37
Navarretia capillaris
mountain dodder 39
Cuscuta suksdorfii
Mountain Indian Paintbrush 40
Castilleja parviflora
mountain holly fern 41
Polystichum scopulinum
mountain tarweed 20
Madia glomerata
Mountain Mugwort 42
Artemisia ludoviciana incompta
Mountain Tansy-mustard 43
Descurainia incana incisa
mountain whitethorn 13
Ceanothus cordulatus
muskflower 13
Mimulus moschatus
Nevada Bird's-foot-trefoil
Lotus nevadensis
Nevada lewisia 41
Lewisia nevadensis
sierran woodbeauty 13
Drymocallis lactea lactea
Pacific popcornflower 44
Plagiobothrys tenellus
Pacific Woodrush 45
Luzula comosa
Parish's catchfly 46
Silene parishii
Parish's yampah
Perideridia parishii parishii
pinewoods lousewort 5
Pedicularis semibarbata
pineapple-weed 47
Matricaria discoidea
Prickly Hawkweed 3
Hieracium horridum
purple nightshade 15
Solanum xanti
San Bernardino Beardtongue 5
Penstemon caesius
Mount Hood pussypaws 49
Calyptridium umbellatum
Red Sand Spurrey 50
Spergularia rubra
rushes 51
Juncus
Rydberg's Horkelia 1
Horkelia rydbergii
bernardina rabbitbrush 52
Ericameria nauseosa bernardina
San Francisco campion 53
Silene verecunda verecunda
Shepherd's purse 54
Capsella bursa-pastoris
seep monkeyflower 55
Mimulus guttatus
Sierra Gooseberry 13
Ribes roezlii
common silverweed 56
Potentilla anserina
mountain pink currant 13
Ribes nevadense
Singleleaf Pinyon 57
Pinus monophylla
slender cinquefoil 20
Potentilla gracilis
Panicled Bulrush 20
Scirpus microcarpus
spreading fleabane 2
Erigeron divergens
Smooth Cat's Ear 58
Hypochaeris glabra
Spotted Coralroot 15
Corallorhiza maculata
spreading groundsmoke 59
Gayophytum diffusum parviflorum
sticky cinquefoil 59
Drymocallis glandulosa
stinging nettle 60
Urtica dioica
Thimbleberry
Rubus parviflorus
Three-petal Bedstraw 18
Galium trifidum
Creeping St. Johnswort
Hypericum adpressum
toadlily 25
Montia chamissoi
Virginia pepperweed 14
Lepidium virginicum

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