Natural History Wanderings

Desert USA has a few early season wildflower updates:

Anza Borrego:

“…Anza Borrego DSP January 26-8. It is very dry. The predicted January rains did not materialize and, unless we get some substantial precipitation within the next 2-3 weeks, there won’t be much of a wildflower season this year.

Even under these dire conditions, there were bright spots. The desert agave were blooming north of Rte 78 about a half mile east of the entrance to Plum Canyon and there was one ocotillo at the entrance to the Yaqui Well campground that managed to produce a single bloom. Chuparosa has started to bloom in Plum Canyon, but it doesn’t look very robust.”

Northern Arizona

Golden Shores and Yuma and Ajo, Az area have Dune Evening Primrose, Sand Verbena, Lupine and Phacelia starting to bloom the past two weeks.

Read all their reports at: Desert USA