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Braggs Canyon is a canyon in the Sutter Buttes, west of West Butte (the peak) and north of West Butte (the town).

In 1941, botanist Amos Arthur Heller collected samples of Sacramento Valley buttercups,1 cowbag clovers,2 foothill larkspurs,3 silver bush lupines,4 foothill phacelias,5 and fiddlenecks6 on a steep, grassy hillside on West Butte Road just west of Braggs Canyon, creating a valuable historic record of the native plants that grew in the area. These plants can still be seen in the same general location, although their numbers are threatened due to competition from invasive weeds.

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1. Consortium of California Herbaria
2. Consortium of California Herbaria
3. Consortium of California Herbaria
4. Consortium of California Herbaria
5. Consortium of California Herbaria
6. Consortium of California Herbaria

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