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Blogs and Diaries / Re: Crystal Range Flora 2024-5
« Last post by Robert on October 10, 2025, 07:29:49 PM »On 9 October 2025, I had a successful trip to the Red Peak region of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Pictured is a neighboring peak, Silver Peak, elevation 8,934 ft. (2,723 meters).
Although many plants were dormant or in a state of autumn senescence there was still a great deal of plant life to observe and study. Pictured above is a dry meadow situated at an elevation of ~ 8,200 feet (2,499 meters). At this elevation Lodgepole Pine, Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana and Mountain Hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana, are the dominant forest species with scattered specimens of Western White Pine, Pinus monticola.