Wildflower Reports 2010
Southern California

Dec 29, 2009 Morgan reports: Santa Barbara front country, Sunday afternoon (122709) on the Jesusita trail at the top the first meadow. The post fire lupine are coming up in mass all over, attached photo is just a hint of things to come.

Mar 4, 2009 Lara reports: The kern river canyon is still abloom with a large variety of species. The road is narrow and winding along the river and there always seemed to be someone behind me wanting to go faster — while i wanted to go slower to find flowers. the trick is finding a place to pull over to photograph the blooms. several places it is simply too dangerous to stand next to the road.

Species in full bloom in the lower to mid canyon were: sticky monkeyflower, elegant clarkia, mexicali onion, farewell to spring/speckled clarkia, lupine, lance-leaved live-forever.

In the upper reaches of the canyon, along kern canyon road, near mill creek, there was ithuriel's spear, linanthus and some fading delphinium species.

Apr. 17, 2009 Al reports: Photos taken on 4/17 at Gorman, then poppy fields on Munz Ranch Rd, between Lake Elizabeth and 138. Snowy egret flocks on hillsides in flowers around gorman.

Apr. 14, 2009 Curtis reports: Taken Easter Sunday on Figueroa Mt. Road near Los Olivos at the upper elevations leading to the Lookout.

Apr. 14, 2009 Sam reports: I was off the interstate 5 freeway, gorman exit. I was there on April 12th, on my drive back to SF from LA. There is a nice place to stop, a small trail and you can walk up into the hills and see flowers everywhere. When driving it looks like the hills are made of marbled yellow, orange, and purple. Very beautiful, and easy to get to.

Apr. 10, 2009 Lilian reports: I drove to Lancaster on April 09, 2009, to check out Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. There is not much blooming in the reserve, however I went 4 wheel driving across the reserve and there were fields of Poppys, Owlsclovers and Yellow flowers..It was very beautiful display, It was absolutely worth the 4 hr drive since I live in Las Vegas. I want ot say that I really enjoy your website and I check the wildflower reports on a daily basis, Thank you for keeping us informed.

Apr. 9, 2009 Lilian reports: Wildflowers put on a spectacular show at Gorman Hills last Saturday. You can easily notice the wonderful display of flowers if you drive along Gorman Post Road. If you want to get close to flowers, just watch your step, we've heard there are plenty of snakes in this area. We hiked a short trail near Carls Jr, sunflower, lupine, poppy, phacelia, fiddleneck,red maid and goldfield were exploding everywhere.