Plant Guide to Wellman Divide to San Jacinto Peak, San Jacinto Mountains

Mile	S	#	id?	Common Name	Latin Name	#here	#all
0.00				Begin guide at Wellman Divide; elevation ~9720 feet (2963 m); Sign: "[ahead] San Jacinto Peak 2.3 mi; [right] Round Valley 1.0 mi; Long Valley 3.0 mi"
0.00	b	1		Parish's snowberry	Symphoricarpos rotundifolius var. parishii	99 / 9	15
0.00	l	2		bush chinquapin	Chrysolepis sempervirens	99 / 9	15
0.00	l			(white fir, Abies concolor)
0.00	b	3		San Jacinto lupine	Lupinus hyacinthinus	30 / 9	11
0.00	r	4		limber pine	Pinus flexilis	30 / 9	11
0.01	b	5		lodgepole pine	Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana	50 / 9	12
0.08				(cone from Jeffrey pine, Pinus jeffreyi; tree not seen)
0.09	b	6		San Jacinto Mts. keckiella	Keckiella rothrockii var. jacintensis	50 / 9	8
0.09	r			View of Tram Station
0.10	r	7		southern mountain-monardella	Monardella australis	40 / 9	13
0.13	l	8		San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush	Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. bernardinus	30 / 9	24
0.14	b			(ranger's buttons, Sphenosciadium capitellatum)
0.18	b			(wax currant, Ribes cereum var. cereum)
0.28	l	9		white fir	Abies concolor	2 / 2	28
0.28	l	10		ranger's buttons	Sphenosciadium capitellatum	20 / 9	10
0.43	r			(green-leaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos patula)
0.62	b	11	sp	sedge	Carex sp.	/
0.65				Switchback left
0.66				Switchback right
0.76				Elevation 10,000 feet (3048 m)
0.91				Cross broad drainage
1.09	l			(shaggy-haired alumroot, Heuchera hirsutissima)
1.10	r	12		wax currant	Ribes cereum var. cereum	5 / 5	18
1.18				Miller Peak is dead ahead to the north; Jean Peak is the prominent peak south of here
1.35				Switchback left near Miller Peak; elevation 10,400 feet (3170 m)
1.40	r	13	sp	mystery sedge	different Carex sp.	10 / 2
1.68	r	14		Parish's bedstraw	Galium parishii	1 / 1	10
1.73	r			Jct. Deer Springs Trail (ahead) and trail to San Jacinto Peak (right); go right; elevation ~10,580 feet (3225 m); sign: "[left] Little Round Valley 1.3 mi; Deer Springs 8.0 mi; Banning Highway 9.5 mi; Idyllwild 10.0 mi; [right] Peak 0.3 mi; [back] Wellman Divide 1.8 mi; Round Valley 2.8 mi; Tram 4.3 mi; Humber Park 7.3 mi"
1.77				Switchback left
1.77	r	15		mountain gooseberry	Ribes montigenum	10 / 2	3
1.86				Y-jct with cut switchback on left; stay right
1.89				Switchback left
1.90				Jct. other end of cut-switchback use trail
1.91	r			Jct. path to warming rock-shelter hut
1.95				Small saddle
1.97	r	16		mountain California-fuchsia	Epilobium canum ssp. latifolium	5 / 1	11
1.97	r	17		Parish's campion	Silene parishii	2 / 1	9
1.97				Trail is braided now, and soon disappears; scramble over the boulders to get to the peak
1.99	r	18		mountain spray	Holodiscus microphyllus var. microphyllus	5 / 1	11
2.00				San Jacinto Peak, elevation 10,842 feet (3305 m)
				Species found by Hall in 1902 within 100 feet elevation of summit not previously on guide:
				western columbine	Aquilegia formosa	/	12
				pussy paws	Calyptridium monospermum	/	10
				brown sedge	Carex subfusca	/	3
				Southern California rock draba	Draba corrugata var. saxosa	/	1
				alpine mountain-sorrel	Oxyria digyna	/	1
				pine lousewort	Pedicularis semibarbata	/	15
				Eschscholtz's buttercup	Ranunculus eschscholtzii var. oxynotus	/	1
				spike trisetum	Trisetum spicatum	/	2
				Additional species vouchered above 10,000 feet (3048 m)
				Utah service-berry	Amelanchier utahensis	/	9
				greensheath sedge	Carex feta	/	1
				Mariposa sedge	Carex mariposana	/	1
				many-ribbed sedge	Carex multicostata	/	1
				brittle bladder fern	Cystopteris fragilis	/	7
				prickly hawkweed	Hieracium horridum	/	4
				beautiful hulsea	Hulsea vestita ssp. callicarpha	/	11
				Arizona hymenoxys	Hymenoxys acaulis var. arizonica	/	1
				San Gabriel beardtongue	Penstemon labrosus	/	13
				Watson's spike-moss	Selaginella watsonii	/	7
				few-flowered clover	Trifolium monanthum var. grantianum	/	3

Mile: 0.00 includes all mileages from 0.000 to 0.009; etc.

Side: Side of trail on which the first occurrence is found: left, right, both, or center

#: On-Trail species are numbered in order of first occurrence on trail (touchable without leaving the trail). Off-trail species are in parentheses.

id?: Species without an entry in this column are positively identified. "?" means we are just guessing the identification; "sp" means the genera is probably known, but the species name is uncertain; "~" means we have 95% confidence that this is the determination, but have not yet positively identified it; "ssp" means the subspecies or variety needs to be determined.

#here gives the minimum number of on-trail plants of this species on this trail, with the number of locations on this trail following the /, using maximum values of 99/9. 1/1 means a single plant in a single location; 20/9 means 20 plants occurring in at least 9 locations, etc.

#all gives the number of plant trail guides, from all over southern California, that contain this taxon.

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Updated 15 August 2007.