Natural History Wanderings

Plumas County is a great wildflower spot for June and early July. Butterfly Valley, Feather River Highway and Oakland Camp are some of the better sites for early bloom. Gold Lakes Basin is best for later in the season.  Here are three wildflower drives recently posted by Charlie Russell on his California Wildflower Hikes Blog

Butterfly Valley Botanical Area : California Wildflower Hikes.

Orchids in Plumas County : California Wildflower Hikes.

Plumas County Wildflowers : California Wildflower Hikes.

You can also find frequent updates at the Joe Willis’s  Black Oak Naturalist blog and the Plumas  County Bloom Blog

A good source for information on the Lakes Basin is Toni Farver’s Wildflower Walking in the Lakes Basin of the Northern Sierra.

Related articles

• Plumas County Wildflower Routes (naturalhistorywanderings.com)
• Plumas County Wildflower Update 5/31/12 (naturalhistorywanderings.com)
• Oakland Camp Plumas County Wildflower Update 5/29/12 (naturalhistorywanderings.com)