Natural History Wanderings

DesertUSA has the following reports for Southern California over the last few days

• 2/25/15  Diamond Valley Lake near Hemet Right now the wildflower trail is full of poppys and other flowers already in full bloom. The workers say this is one of the better years this season.
• 2/24/15 Carrizo Plain National Monument Looks like it maybe a good year! (see link below for photos)
• 2/22/15 Pacheco State Park – fields with numbers of shooting stars, yellow violets, popcorn flowers and blue dicks. Fiddlenecks were just starting to bloom. Some small lupine flowers on short stems were present but not obvious. Other flowers (saxifrage and purple sanicle for example) were present in smaller numbers. At the end of Dinosaur Point Road near the San Luis Reservoir, we parked in a large parking lot on the left side of the road. We walked up a hillside behind the restrooms and saw lots of flowers on that hillside.

See photos and older reports at Desert Wildflower Reports for Southern California by DesertUSA.