page_title: Castle Crags Wilderness
section_title: Flora and fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Castle Crags Wilderness / Flora and fauna
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the California endemic Castle Crags harebell (Campanula shetleri). Castle Crags Wilderness Area — Shasta Trinity National Forest, Northern California.
context_page_description: The Castle Crags Wilderness is a 12,232-acre wilderness area in the Castle Crags rock formations of the Trinity Mountains, and within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, in northwestern California. It is located in Siskiyou County and Shasta County, 40 miles north of Redding and south of Mount Shasta City.
  The US Congress passed the California Wilderness Act in 1984 which set aside the wilderness.
context_section_description: The wilderness contains more than 300 species of wildflowers, including the Castle Crags harebell and the Castle Crags ivesia, both endemic, as well as tiger lily, monkey flower, and Indian rhubarb. Drier locations have yarrow, aster and buckwheat. Forested areas have incense cedar, white fir, ponderosa pine, several types of oaks with Pacific dogwood and maple in riparian zones. Meadows and brushlands have various kinds of manzanita along with huckleberry oak, chaparral and mountain whitethorn. Poison oak is common, as are rattlesnakes—dictating caution when hiking the trails. 
  Black bears, coyotes, bobcats and mountain lions are some of the larger predators in this diverse habitat of bare granite, steep slopes, meadows and mountain streams.
caption: Endemic Castle Crags harebell.
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