Snell Creek
Coordinates: 38°42′13″N 122°24′41″W / 38.70361°N 122.41139°W[1]
Snell Creek is a 2.1-mile-long (3.4 km)[2] watercourse in Napa County, California.[3] It is situated approximately five miles north of Aetna Springs and is a tributary of , which ultimately merges into Putah Creek.[4]
Plants[]
Snell Valley is noted for its biodiversity of flora, and within Snell Valley is the Missimer Wildflower Preserve. An example of wildflowers in the Snell Creek watershed is yellow mariposa lily, Calochortus luteus.[5]
Line notes[]
- ^ "Snell Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 10, 2011
- ^ David L. Durham. 2001
- ^ Putah Creek Watershed. sacriver.org, accessed April 6, 2018
- ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2009
References[]
- David L. Durham. 2001. Durham's place names of California's old wine country, page 65
- C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Yellow Mariposa Lily: Calochortus luteus, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
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