Natural History Wanderings

Marin CNPS has photos a report from California Wildflower Hikes

Checker lily, Fritillaria affinis, a California native. Just starting to see these come out, I found quite a few that wer just starting to bud out. And a few that were open! This is at the Natalie Coffin Greene Park near San Rafael.

California Wildflower Report has a photo of a flowery hillside in the Santa Monica  Mts. at California Wildflower Report  and also reports “Poppies all along the I-15 north of Lake Elsinore now.”