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Red Canyon Botanical Area
The Red Canyon Botanical Area is home to seven plant species that are found together nowhere else in the world. The plants can be found growing on soils that are rich in calcium carbonate (limestone) and are called calciphiles or “limestone lovers”. These rare plants have become adapted to the severe environmental conditions that are found in the Red Canyon area – shallow soils, extreme changes in temperature from summer to winter, summer thunderstorms, intense sunlight, and a variable supply of moisture.

The U.S. Forest Service established the Red Canyon Botanical Area in 2001 to allow researchers to study these unique plant species and to enable the public to enjoy them as well.

Resource Issues Fish, Wildlife and Rare Plants Panguitch Creek Red Canyon
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Photographing rare plants.