Natural History Wanderings

The Press Enterprise reports

A modest wildflower bloom is bursting through the brown-and-dry landscape at Lake Elsinore’s Walker Canyon.

But this year’s California poppy show pales in comparison to the dramatic 2019 superbloom that painted the canyon’s hills a brilliant orange and drew hundreds of thousands of awestruck visitors.

Read more at With fewer flowers, Lake Elsinore hills more brown than orange – Press Enterprise