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towns with incredible wildflower displays closeby:
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The early Spring can bring Deserts as well as mountain foothills
to full bloom. By summer, expect to see the upper elevations
bursting with color. After the huge mounds of snow melt, meadows
are the place to be!
All wildflowers are protected
by California law with a $500 fine for violation. For every
one wildflower picked, one hundred less will bloom next year.
What Time of Year When is the bloom?
This is a chart for best chances of viewing flowers in the
state of California
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Wildflower Hikes
Hot Springs Mountain
(Off Highway 79)
5.5 miles RT/ strenuous
elevation gain/loss =1,250 feet
N
ear Warner Springs, East of Temecula
/ 10 miles northeast of Lake
Henshaw
- From Temecula Interstate 15, take Highway
79 East to Warner Springs
- Drive up Los Coyotes' Indian Reservations
main road, past the intersection of Middle Fork Borrego Palm
Canyon (6.1 miles past the entrance gate )
- Turn left (west) and drive up the valley
on a sandy road to reach a saddle above the valley 2.2 mi. farther
- At Nelson's Camp, on the left side of the
road, Park at the camp
- Begin hiking southwest up along a small tributary
stream that flows north & west into Agua Caliente Creek.
- Follow an old Jeep trail up, gaining more
than 500 feet in just over a mile.
- At the top, you'll meet a better road that
runs up the south slope to Hot Springs Mountain
- Turn left (west) on this road and climb another
1.6 miles along the ridgeline to the tower.
- Pass through dense forests of black oak,
Coulter pine and white fir,
- Meadows dotted in late spring with wildflowers.
- Lookout tower, dilapidated and seemingly
on its last leg, sits on the west shoulder of the mountain
- Go a bit higher on the ridge by following
a faint trail through thick brush and around boulders to the
true summit. A flat concrete platform caps the summit block.
Photo Credit © Chris DiNenna
Early Spring bloom in March - Tollhouse Rd. east of Fresno
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Wildflower
Hotlines
- LA Area Wildflower Hotline 818/ 768-3533
- Kern County Wildflower Hotline 800/ 500-KERN
- Anza Borrego Desert 760/ 767-4684
Wildflowers
Reference Sources
...Looking for a certain kind of flower or photo of one?
California
Wildflowers Digital Photo Database
Berkeley Digital
Library Project
Wildflower Seeds
The Wildflower Seeds Company
Larner Seeds
S&S California Wildflower Seeds
Favorite Links
Links to other websites dedicated to California Wildflowers
California Wildflower
Hotsheet - detailed descriptions of photographers
journey
Wildflowers
Sorted by Colors - a reference site featuring
wildflowers by color
QC Flower.com - ultimate flower links archive
Society/Groups/Clubs
California Native Plant Society
