Although wildflowers still linger on in some areas, the season is over at Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area. They published an end of the season report on 9/3/11.
“Yesterday I hiked the entire six miles of the Mishe Mokwa loop at Circle X Ranch and only saw six different species in bloom and largely only a few of each actually blooming. Recently someone who frequently sends flower reports to this newsletter wrote to me and said they went on two different hikes and “everything was dead.” So it often seems on the trails in Southern California in the summertime. For sure, flowers can be found throughout the summer and my camera is busy year round, but mostly gone is the best the Santa Monica Mountains has to offer…”
Follow their website next spring for new year’s wildflower reports: http://www.researchlearningcenter.org/bloom/
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