DesertUSA has the following new reports
Northern Arizona
- Sonoran preserve valle verde trail. At the end of the trail there are hills of flowers.
- Bartlett Lake on good poppy displays
- Bluebells are in a huge patch of poppies, scorpion weed and a few fairy duster at the corner of Ellsworth and McKellin Road, Mesa, AZ
- Poppies in the fields off the Bush HWY just north of Saguaro Lake, AZ
- Peridot Mesa is carpeted with poppies. Based on dead flowers and buds I’d estimate that this was very near the peak.
- If you are looking for waves of poppies to photograph don’t bother with Apache Trail yet. Only found one large patch and it was way down over the bank. Used my 55-200 but got nothing special. Most poppies were in groups of 3-5ish. Wind was blowing, so not much came out sharp. Lots of tiny flowers, just not many poppies.
- East Mesa. Ellsworth and Mckellips 3/5/2017 – Poppies and Phacelia
- Lost Dutchman state park in the treasure loop trail. Everything is green and there are patches of hillsides with flowers.
See photos for Northern Arizona at: http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/az.html#ixzz4amE8eH4k
Southern Arizona
- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument March 3-4. We never saw so much green desert. Millions of buds on Brittlebush nearing bloom. Millions of poppies growing. However, not much blooming on these visited dates. There were a few fields of poppies several hundred feet off the Ajo Mt. Loop and the North Puerto Blanco Drive. Also a very few orange mallow and other flowers. Our prediction is that there will be massive blooms in about 10 days
- Tucson Mountains 3/7/17 I was walking the Passey Loop in Marana and saw some pink globemallow, chicory, bladderpod and lots of brittlebush
See photos for Southern Arizona at http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/tucson.html
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