Donovan Hill is a hill in Yuba County. It is located south of Sugarloaf, west of Stanfield Hill (the town) and Collins Lake, northwest of Stanfield Hill (the hill), north of McGinn Hill, and northeast of Paynes Peak. Its elevation is 1,624 feet,1 and its prominence above the surrounding countryside is about 540 feet.2
Donovan Hill Unit of Daugherty Hill State Wildlife Area
Cattle graze next to a dry creek in the Donovan Hill Unit of Daugherty Hill State Wildlife Area. Photo by queerbychoice.
Donovan Hill is part of the 1,762-acre Donovan Hill Unit of Daugherty Hill State Wildlife Area. The Donovan Hill Unit is the second-largest and the most centrally located of the three units in Daugherty Hill State Wildlife Area and is located west of Collins Lake.
Native Plants
Native plants documented as growing in the Donovan Hill Unit of Daugherty Hill State Wildlife Area include the following.3
Annuals
- common fiddleneck
- Menzies' fiddleneck
- common sandweed
- red maids
- Bolander's water-starwort
- winecup clarkia
- sand pygmyweed
- American wild carrot
- tufted poppy
- Pacific fescue
- stickywilly
- toad rush
- shining pepperweed
- true babystars
- thread linanthus
- spider lupine
- sky lupine
- harlequin annual lupine
- common tarweed
- little tarweed
- gumweed tarweed
- Q-tips
- manyflowered monkeyflower
- annual water-minerslettuce
- threadstem pincushionplant
- downy pincushionplant
- marigold pincusionplant
- small baby blue eyes
- fivespot
- caterpillar scorpionweed
- sculptured popcornflower
- foothill plantain
- woodland fairy mist
- slender annual buttercup
- maiden clover
- tomcat clover
- dwarf owl's clover
Perennials
- bigflower agoseris
- lady's mantle
- white fairy lantern
- Idaho bittercress
- wild hyacinth
- manyflower brodiaea
- twining snakelily
- blue wildrye
- common woollysunflower
- sulfur pea
- Sierra star
- California manroot
- Torrey's oniongrass
- Hartweg's doll's-lily
- poison sanicle
- purple sanicle
- mountain jewelflower
- white brodiaea
Shrubs
Trees
- California buckeye
- sticky whiteleaf manzanita
- ponderosa pine
- California foothill pine
- canyon live oak
- blue oak
- California black oak
- interior live oak
- red willow
Vines
Ferns
Links
Footnotes
1. Topographic Map Summit Features in Yuba County
2. Lists of John: CA—Yuba County Summits Sorted by Name
3. CalFlora.org
