page_title: Red Buttes Wilderness
section_title: Flora
hierarchical_section_title: Red Buttes Wilderness / Flora and fauna / Flora
context_page_description: The Red Buttes Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Klamath and Rogue River national forests in the U.S. states of Oregon and California. It comprises 19,940 acres, approximately 16,190 acres of which is located in California, and 3,750 acres in Oregon. It was established by the California Wilderness Act of 1984 and the Oregon Wilderness Act of 1984.
context_section_description: At the lowest elevations of the Red Buttes Wilderness is found a magnificent old-growth forest of ponderosa pine, sugar pine, Douglas-fir and incense-cedar, with an understory of Pacific madrone, canyon live oak, and chinquapin. On the higher slopes are found white fir, Shasta red fir, and mountain hemlock. Knobcone pine is also common along some dry, rocky ridges. Perhaps the most distinctive vegetation community is that found on the peridotite/serpentinite outcrops - Jeffrey pine, western white pine, and Brewer spruce. A small stand of subalpine fir was also recently discovered by Frank Callahan in the wilderness.
  Some of the plant species in the Wilderness - such as Brewer's spruce, Sadler oak, Siskiyou lewisia, and a number of sclerophyllous shrubs - are found only in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California.
caption: Brewer spruce (Picea breweriana)
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