Mountain Region
Mountain range is the largest and easternmost range in California. The eastern foothills of this mountain range experience desert-like weather, while the peaks experience arctic-like conditions that cause them to contain varying amounts of snow year round. The majority of the Sierra Nevada range experiences microthermal weather conditions. The mountain region has cool to cold and wet winters and hot dry summers. In the higher elevations, the mountain region produces snowfall throughout the year, the majority of which occurs during the winter months.
Western Cone-flower is found in mountain meadows. Flowers are composites with dark purple upraised centers. Western Cone- flower can grow to six feet tall making it quite showy. This perennial grows in full to part sun in mountain meadows and other moist openings in the forest.
A slender herb of the Pacific coast having a much-branched leafy stem and showy racemes of blue flowers with narrow corolla segments and long exserted style.
Baneberry is a small perennial that grows in deep woods, north slopes and in meadows in Southern California . In small doses Baneberry was used by Native Americans for all that ails you, in moderate doses it will kill you. Small animals and birds seem to be able to eat the berries with no problems.
This is Globe Sedge. A dark green mounding sedge that always looks like it just got watered. Globe sedge grows all along the California Mountain area.
The Giant Sequoia got its name from the Cherokee Indian scholar Sequoya, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. The giant sequoia grow naturally only in groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.