Notes on the Wildflower Season in Southern California
Southern and Eastern California
The San Gabriel Mountains
Central and Northern California
All of California
Bordering States
Fall ColorNative Plants in Natural Areas These are dynamic pages, always changing with new updates. Some don't get started till the wildflowers bloom! Others are as ephemeral as the blooms themselves.
Southern and Eastern California
- Our Botanical Trail Reports, sometimes updated every four days.
- Tom's Plants Blooming Now on the Santa Rosa Plateau (this has detailed records every 2-7 days in 2001-2003, sporadic records in 2004, and updates every ~4 days in 2005. The page ceased to be updated in 2006.) See also plots of the number of species in bloom vs. time for 2001-2003.
- Tom's Number Of Species In Bloom Vs. Time For Plants of the Devils Slide, San Jacinto Mountains, for 2006 and 2007.
- The Theodore Payne Foundation's Wildflower Hotline
- The San Diego Natural History Museum's Plants - includes plant lists for San Diego County and wildflower reports.
- California Native Plant Society, San Diego Chapter In the Field
- Wildflowers in the Fallbrook Burn Area, 2003 (San Diego County)
- Antelope Valley Press wildflower information guide - poppies in the Palmdale area, Antelope Valley, just north of the SGM.
- Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
- The Antelope Valley Poppy Page
- Desert Wildflower Watch from Desert USA, up-to-date because they send out their own reporters
- Kern and Tulare Counties Wildflower Report (click on Wildflower Reports)
- Wildflowers at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park with Updates
- Current Flower Bloom from Anza Borrego Desert Natural History Association at the Desert Nature Center in Borrego Springs
- Death Valley National Park Wildflowers with Updates
- This page from the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest also has current Death Valley wildflower information
- Joshua Tree National Park's Wildflowers - When and Where with Updates
- Bureau of Land Management Eastern Mojave Desert from the Needles Field Office
- Bureau of Land Management Western Mojave Desert from the Ridgecrest Field Office
- Bureau of Land Management Spring Wildflower Viewing in the Western Mojave Desert from the Ridgecrest Field Office
- What's Blooming in the Santa Monica Mountains
Plants Blooming in the San Gabriel Mountains Wildflower Locations in the SGM
Plants Blooming Now in the San Gabriel Mountains
Bloom Identification Guide (Plants Blooming in 2000)
Relation Of Culinary Plants To SGM Plants
Plants Blooming In The San Gabriel Mountains - 1999
Plants Blooming In The San Gabriel Mountains - 1997 and 1998 Observations
Jane Strong's Noticeable Butterflies of the Front Range of the San Gabriel Mountains
Labelled Native Plants in Artificially Irrigated Settings
These are static sites where you can go and check out the plants by name or get help identifying what you saw.
- Eaton Canyon Nature Center Plants of Eaton Canyon
- Heap's Peak Arboretum
- Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden's Guide for Visitors
Central and Northern California
- Carrizo Plain Natural Area, Godwin Education Center
- Pinnacles National Monument Wildflowers in Bloom
- Monterey Bay Chapter California Native Plant Society Flower Sightings
- Wildflowers Currently in Bloom at Coe Park - Henry W. Coe Park in Santa Clara County, northern California
- Early Spring Wild Flowers of Mount Diablo
- Yosemite National Park Conditions Update: Seasonal Information: Wildflowers
- South Yuba River State Park Wildflowers in Bloom
- Regional Parks Botanic Garden [Berkeley, CA] Garden Report
- Marin Chapter California Native Plant Society Now Blooming in Marin County and "Plants in Bloom" Lists from Wilma Follette's Wildflower Walks
All of California BLM site for all of CA with specific locations and numbers to call for updates.
CNPS Great Wildflowers Discussion Board
Carol Leigh's California Wildflower Hotsheet with reports from correspondents about different areas.
Total Escape's California Wildflowers
Orchids of California: Bloom Time
Bordering States Nevada Wildflower Report
Arizona Wildflower Report from Desert USA
Flora Northwest Menu of Wildflowers to be Seen in Oregon & Washington
Fall Color Observations of Plants Blooming in the San Gabriel Mountains, With Locations, 2001 from Field Guide to the San Gabriel Mountains
Fall Color in California from Carol Leigh of Picture This
CNPS Great Wildflowers Discussion Board
Fall Color in the Eastern Sierra from Inyo National Forest
Mono Basin Fall Update from the Mono Lake Committee
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Updated 17 June 2007