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Bluff Lake is a shallow freshwater lake surrounded by wet and dry meadows.  A conifer forest, with lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta var. murrayana, the dominant, borders the meadows.  Some individual trees are exceptionally large, with at least one specimen 33 meters (110 feet) tall and having a 6-meter (20-foot) circumference.

The meadows are of particular botanical interest as four rare plants occur here, Perideridia parishii var. parishii, Poa atropurpurea, Taraxacum californicum and Sidalcea pedata.  This appears to be the only known site for the Sidalcea.

Integrity:  There are some stables on the meadows' edge and some grazing has occurred, but the meadows are relatively undisturbed.

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November 1980
  
San Bernardino
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2005 Steven Louis Hartman

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Last modified: December 06, 2005