This photo gallery contains pictures which I took on several trips into the Laguna Mountains in 2005, mostly along the Sunrise Highway (S-1), with stopoffs at Penny Pines, the Garnet Peak Trail, Kitchen Creek Road, Desert View, Big Laguna Trailhead, Inspiration Point and other places that were not recorded. The Laguna Mountains in the Cleveland National Forest are in the Peninsular Mountain range system of eastern San Diego County and run for approximately 35 miles northwest to southeast, bordered on the west by the Cuyamacas and on the east by the Colorado Desert. The highest point in the Laguna Mountains is Cuyapaipe Mountain at 6,378'. This area is vegetated mostly by chaparral, oak forests, and grassy meadows. The Pacific Crest Trail traverses the Lagunas and runs parallel to the Sunrise Highway in places. I should say that since this was early in my botanizing days and this is an area that I am not overly familiar with, it is entirely possible that there may be some errors in identification. Feel free to contact me. For reference, see Vascular Plants of the Cuyamaca and Laguna Mountains, California by Jerilyn Hirshberg and Duffie Clemens, published in Phytologia, August 1996. An asterisk next to the common name indicates a non-native taxon.

Adams' manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. adamsii
Ericaceae
[Named for Joseph Edison Adams, 1903-1981]

Smallflower baby blue eyes
Nemophila menziesii var. integrifolia
Hydrophyllaceae
{Named for Archibald Menzies, 1754-1842]

Ashy silktassel
Garrya flavescens
Garryaceae
[Named for Nicholas Garry, c.1782-1856]

Desert prickly-pear
Opuntia phaecantha
Cactaceae

Chicalote
Argemone munita
Papaveraceae