Some of the pictures on this page were not located on the Sugarloaf Mountain Trail, but rather along the road (2N93) that leads up to the Wild Horse Meadows trailhead and in the meadow area itself. I have indicated those with a + sign. The trail was somewhat drier than I expected, perhaps because of the lack of late spring rains, and there was very little in bloom around the summit. An upside-down V next to the common name indicates a taxon that was new to me when I photographed it on this field trip.

Rose sage
Salvia pachyphylla
Lamiaceae

Martin's paintbrush
Castilleja applegatei ssp. martinii
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Domingo Castillejo Muñoz, 1744?-1793, and Elmer Ivan Applegate, 1867-1949]

Southern mountain woolstar Eriastrum densifolium ssp. austromontanum Polemoniaceae

Golden yarrow
Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum
Asteraceae

Mountain sagebrush
Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana
Asteraceae
[Named for George Richard Vasey, 1853-1921]

Ashy gray paintbrush
Castilleja cinerea
(Maroon form)
Scrophulariaceae

Davidson's buckwheat
Eriogonum davidsonii
Polygonaceae
[Named for Anstruther Davidson, 1860-1932]

Beaked penstemon
Penstemon rostriflorus
Scrophulariaceae

Chicalote
Argemone munita
Papaveraceae

Brewer's fleabane Erigeron breweri var. breweri Asteraceae [Named for William Henry Brewer, 1828-1910]

Bush chinquapin
Chrysolepis sempervirens
Fagaceae

Rydberg's horkelia
Horkelia rydbergii
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Johann Horkel, 1769-1846, and Per Axel Rydberg, 1860-1931]

Tiling's monkeyflower
Mimulus tilingii
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Heinrich Sylvester Theodor Tiling (1818-1871)

Grinnell's penstemon
Penstemon grinnellii var. grinnellii
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., 1882-1943]

San Bernardino Mountains alumroot
Heuchera parishii
Saxifragaceae
[Named for Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677-1747) and Samuel Bonsall Parish, 1838-1928]