Plants & Trees
Plants & Trees
Located at the mid-elevation of the western Sierra Nevada, Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a prime example of a mixed conifer forest in the yellow pine belt. Giant Sequoias Sequoiadendron giganteum dominate ponderosa pines Pinus ponderosa, sugar pines Pinus lambertiana, incense cedars Calocedrus decurrens and white fir Abies concolor.
Mountain dogwood Cornus nuttallii