Borregohiking.com has several new wildflower hikes with descriptions and photos on their Facebook page including
- Cup Valley Wilson Mountain Loop
- Hornblende Canyon to Morteros
- Butler Canyon- Hidden Spring-Rockhouse Canyon
- Little Blair Valley Loop
Description of findings of Cup Valley Wilson Mountain Loop mentioned above from Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association
We explored a part of Culp Valley we haven’t been before and we ended up far to the east in washes that eventually end up in the Glorietta Canyon.
A nice surprise to still find Goldfields, Lasthenia gracilis everywhere, mixed with Narrowleaf goldenbush, Ericameria linearifolia they make it very yellow. Cleveland’s beardtongue, Penstemon clevelandii var. clevelandii and Parish’s purple nightshade, Solanum parishii along boulders. Desert globemallow, Sphaeralcea ambigua var. rugosa are in the thousands, out there, some are already blooming.
We found our first ever Chinese Houses, Collinsia concolor, should be more out there. Veatch’s blazing star, Mentzelia veatchiana are hard to miss, they are everywhere It would be a bad hike if we wouldn’t find Hairy bush monkeyflower, Mimulus aurantiacus var. pubescens and we found 8+ and they always grow in the most impossible places. This is Carla’s favorite. We where looking for Lemmon’s linanthus, Leptosiphon lemmonii before and found only a few now we found 100+ but only at one particular spot.
Natural History Wanderings 
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