Vegetation Library for Long Valley Caldera and the Mammoth Mountain Region
The following are pictures and spectral signatures of the dominant plant species
that populate the Long Valley region, including those organisms found at the higher
elevations of Mammoth Mountain.
TREES
Juniperus osteosperma, Utah juniper
Taken at Hot Creek,
central Caldera
Pinus jeffreyi, Jeffrey Pine
Taken near the Casa Diablo
Geothermal Plant
Abies magnifica, Red Fir
Taken near Devil's Postpile
National Mounument
Pinus albicaulis, Whitebark Pine
Taken at top of
Minaret Pass Road
Pinus contorta, Lodgepole Pine
Taken near Devil's
Postpile National Monument
Tsuga mertensiana, Mountain Hemlock
Taken near
Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort
Pinus monophylla, Singleleaf Pinyon Pine
Taken on
the Hot Creek Rhyolite Flow in the central Caldera
Limber (?) Pine
Taken on
the Deadman Creek Flow in the western Caldera
Alnus rhombifolia, White Alder
Taken at the Old
Mammoth City Site
Populus tremuloides, Aspen
Taken at the Old
Mammoth City Site
Salix spp., Willow
Taken at the Old
Mammoth City Site
SHRUBS
Artemesia tridentata, Sagebrush
Taken at the Casa Diablo
geothermal area
"Woody Sagebrush"
Taken near Rhyolite Hot Springs on travertine
Purshia tridentata, Antelope Bush
Taken near Hot Creek
in the central Caldera
Chrysothamnus nauseosus, Rabbitbrush
Taken at Little
Hot Creek in September
Wyethia mollis, Mule Ears
Taken near Panorama Dome
near Mammoth Mountain