Monrovia Canyon Park
This wilderness park is in the City of Monrovia adjacent to the Angeles National Forest. A few sources of information about it include:
- City of Monrovia web site
- An “unofficial” Monrovia Canyon Park web site
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Tom Chester's web site, with text by Jane Strong and Tom Chester
- Dan Simpson's hiking pages
Flora list: Click here for Bob Muns's Flora of Monrovia Canyon Wilderness Park (PDF, 723 KB). (This document is optimized for half-letter sized paper, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, the same as the original.)
There are two panels of photos below:
A.: Waterfall Trail, 2007-2008
B. Sawpit Creek and
nearby places, 20090
Click on the thumbnails to see higher-resolution images, 720 x 480 pixels.
A. Waterfall Trail
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Monrovia Canyon Falls |
Forest in Monrovia Canyon |
Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) |
California polypody (Polypodium californicum) |
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Hillside gooseberry (Ribes californicum) |
A salamander in Monrovia Canyon Creek |
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Chaparral currant (Ribes malvaceum) |
Coffee fern |
Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) |
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B. Sawpit Creek and nearby places
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Humboldt lily (Lilium humboldtii ssp. ocellatum) |
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White sage (Salvia apiana) |
Bay trees (Umbellularia californica) |
Giant chain fern (Woodwardia fimbriata) |
Sawpit Canyon |
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Plummer's mariposa lily (Calochortus plummerae) |
Scarlet larkspur (Delphinium cardinale) |
Heartleaf penstemon (Keckiella cordifolia) |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Images in Panel A copyright ©
2007-2012
Andrea Edwards
Images in Panel B copyright ©
2009-2012
Graham Bothwell
Thanks to Jane Strong for assistance in identification of plants and flowers.
