Trees in Kings Canyon

In the low to mid-mountain elevations grow mixed forests of ponderosa pine, incense cedar, white fir, sugar pine, and scattered groves of giant sequoia. Further upslope, Jeffrey pine, which has bark that smells like vanilla, are scattered on dry granite slopes, and pure stands of magnificent red fir and lodgepole pine forest the upper mountain zone. Quaking aspen rim the moist meadows and grow on the cool slopes.