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Map Satellite An extensive sagebrush flat falling away to rather steep bluffs along the Little Truckee River, with a level flood plain between the bluffs and the river, makes this area a unique site for the study of plants peculiar to the sagebrush community.
The dominant plant is the sagebrush, Artemisia tridentata. In most years there is a considerable display, in the meadow area, of Camassia quamash succeeded by Allium lemmonii. There is a fine collection of sagebrush-associated plants which occur in succession during the spring and summer.
Yellow bells, Fritillaria pudica, common to the north, apparently reaches its southernmost distribution here.
Integrity: The area is heavily grazed by sheep during the spring and summer, and the river is a popular trout stream.
Use: Private. United States Forest Service land: research, observation, fishing.
Ref: True, Gordon H., 1973. The Ferns and Seed Plants of Nevada County. California Academy of Sciences, Mimeo.
April 1975
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2009 Steven Louis Hartman
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