Natural History Wanderings

Updated later on 3/22/13

Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association had several new wildflower bloom reports this morning

Along S22 you can find a lot of Dune Evening Primrose. Coming from Borrego Springs, you find the most of them on the north side of S22, around mile 23.1. But you have to come early, because these primroses close their flowers when the temperature rises.

a nice carpet of mixed flowers, easy to get to, in town, at the junction of Lazy S and Big Horn.  Flowers are popping up in several areas in the north side of town, including the end of DiGiorgio Road.  Just scout around and see what you find.

 No Return Canyon (Fish Creek area)  A good place to look for blooming cactus, we found dozens of blooming barrels, beavertails and about a dozen of silver chollas. The cheese bush, creosote and chuparosa are also beautiful blooming, but the indigo bush here is splendid. Also worth mentioning: some ghostflowers, sand blazing star, broadleaved gilia, specter phacelia, bunches of parish’s gold poppy and lots of trailing windmills.”

In a remote state park canyon in the In-Ko-Pah Mountains, Wolf’s Cholla (Cylindropuntia wolfii), our only red-flowered cholla, is starting to flower.also … Beautiful Woolly Sunflowers, Eriophyllum ambiguum var. paleaceum (Sunflower family, Asteraceae), Newberry’s Velvet Mallow, Horsefordia newberryi (Mallow family, Malvaceae),

See photos and older reports from the Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association Anza-Borrego Wildflowers Spring – Fall 2013.