Heaps Peak Arboretum is another place I hadn't been since 2006, and since I missed Jane Strong's outing there, I decided to make up for it by doing a photo gallery. It was a fairly hot day and I found it a bit drier than I had expected, yet there were still many lovely flowers in bloom including the last good flower of the mountain dogwood which I found after searching through and under the entire dogwood grove. That was one of the things I had hoped to get into a photo gallery. Heaps Peak Arboretum is on CA-18 a couple of miles east of Lake Arrowhead at an elevation of about 6000', and is managed by the Rim of the World Interpretive Association and Robert Reed, the Arboretum Director. It takes its name from the pioneer Fred Heaps who established a ranch nearby in the late 1800's. Click here for more information about its history and activities. There are things that have been planted there that do not grow in the San Bernardinos like Sequoiadendron giganteum, Calycanthus occidentalis, Philadelphus lewisii, and Fallugia paradoxa, so you have to be a little careful about what you're looking at. An asterisk after the common name indicates a non-native species, and a tilde (~) indicates some uncertainty of identification. Thanks to Hartmut Wisch for the critter id's.

Large-flowered collomia
Collomia grandiflora
Polemoniaceae

Mountain dogwood
Cornus nuttallii
Cornaceae

Anderson's lupine
Lupinus andersonii
Fabaceae

Eaton's firecracker
Penstemon eatonii
Plantaginaceae

Beaked penstemon
Penstemon rostriflorus
Plantaginaceae