Natural History Wanderings

Wild in Arizona reports

Wildflowers are showing in the Warm Springs Wilderness. . Poppies, Lupine, and Beavertail Cactus are in bloom now. Brittlebush about two weeks away. T.. Organ Pipe is not having a good bloom yet, report back when the brittle bush starts. Buckskin and Gibraltar have a few wildflowers with Cactus coming on strong in the next few

See photos and full post at Arizona Wildflower Field Report: 3/13/15 » Wild in Arizona. 

DesertUSA reports

• Mar 13 2015 Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park Reports: There continues to be a beautiful assortment of flowers appearing all around the Park. Check out this weekends Spring Flower Sale and Flower walks in our Event Calendar. The drive to the Park, coming up Highway 60 is also littered with beautiful flowers along both sides of the roadway.
• Mar 12, 2015 Peridot Mesa. Still tons of blooms, most of the Lupine are found right along the highway. Quite a few folks out on the Mesa.
• March 11 Ellsworth Road, Mesa AZ  poppies and Parry Penstemon that I located on the 60 east of Gold Canyon, AZ March 10, 2015

see photos at  Desert Wildflower reports for Phoenix and Northern Arizona Area – DesertUSA.

• Mar 13, 2015 Picacho Peak State Park Picacho Peak State Park: KABLOOM! go the flowers. This is “prime-time” for flower viewing and photos. You’ll be treated to flowers all along Interstate 10 on your way to the Picacho, at the front entrance, and all throughout the Park.
• March 10  Picacho Peak The Brittlebush are in full bloom.
•  March 7 at Saguaro National Park west. The pictures were taken at the Ringtail Trail Access in the north part of the park. Lots of brittle bush lighting up the landscape along with gold poppies and some sandbells or bristly nama hispidum.

see photos at Desert Wildflowers Tucson – Southern AZ – DesertUSA