[4] The Figueroa Mountain Recreation Area has excellent spring wildflower displays after wet winters.

Late March brings out the early blooming specimens such as purple shooting stars (Dodecatheon clevelandii ssp.

Later arrivals on the mountain include chocolate lilies (Fritillaria biflora), and the scarlet Indian paintbrush (Castilleja spp).

The open grassland areas support a profusion of annual species including goldfields (Lasthenia spp.

[5] This Mountains records the oldest confirmed "modern" biological community related with a Deep sea vent, the Figueroa Sulfide, from the Early Jurassic.