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Welcome to the Theodore Payne Foundation’s 42nd year of the Wildflower Hotline. The Hotline offers weekly on-line and recorded updates on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in L.A.
Millions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions shaped the landscape that is now Pinnacles National Park. The remnants of these ancient eruptions have formed a striking terrain of rocky spires and deep canyons. Visitors can explore diverse environments, from chaparral and oak woodlands to the cool, shaded depths of canyon floors. From short, easy trails for the whole family to strenuous hikes for the serious adventurer, Pinnacles has it all! In the woodlands along the riparian corridors, goldfields can be found in grassy open areas, especially now along the Bench Trail. Milkmaids and shooting stars are occupying meadows like those along the Rim Trail. The magenta-colored warrior’s plume, a root parasite poaching nutrients from the roots of other plants, is abundant in the shade beneath oaks and shrubs. Check them out if you are walking the High Peaks Loop.
Wildflowers are usually in early bloom at the Theodore Payne Foundation, but without the winter rainfall occurring in SoCal this year, visitors will have to wait to find out what wildflower species may germinate and grow after March’s recent rain. Colorful native perennials, however, always benefit from rain no matter what time of year. The hot pink of hummingbird sage, red Baja fairy duster and Nevin’s barberry growing in the demonstration garden, are attracting a different kind of visitor—hungry hummingbirds! Chilicothe and Baja spurge are show-stoppers in the Demonstration Garden this week too. Along the sales yard pathways, visitors are tempted to take a closer look and photograph the deep pink Western redbud trees and the blue-eyed grass making a showy ground cover under them. Trekking up Wildflower Hill adjacent to the sales yard, you will encounter fragrant Cedros Island verbena—a lovey lavender flowered perennial which can also be purchased at the TPF nursery!
The Iron Mountain Trail near Poway is a popular hiking route for San Diego area trekkers. On this fabulous trail, you will see hundreds of plants of the warrior’s plume which is scattered along the trailhead. Sunny slopes are covered as far as the eye can see with flowering Eastwood manzanita and mission manzanita. There are bush poppies with their large yellow flowers standing out like beacon lights among their grey foliage. Woolly leaf ceanothus is covered with buds and soon there will be hundreds of these blue-flowering shrubs in bloom. Snow drop bush is just leafing out, so it will be a month or so before it pops with lovely white blossoms!
That’s it for this week. Visit the Wildflower Hotline website to see photos of these and more wildflower sites. The Theodore Payne Foundation’s. annual Native Plant Garden Tour is April 5 & 6. Tickets are now on sale. Check the TPF website theodorepayne.org for details. The next report will be available on Friday, March 28th.
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Welcome to the Theodore Payne Foundation’s 42nd year of the Wildflower Hotline. The Hotline offers weekly on-line and recorded updates on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in L.A.
Millions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions shaped the landscape that is now Pinnacles National Park. The remnants of these ancient eruptions have formed a striking terrain of rocky spires and deep canyons. Visitors can explore diverse environments, from chaparral and oak woodlands to the cool, shaded depths of canyon floors. From short, easy trails for the whole family to strenuous hikes for the serious adventurer, Pinnacles has it all! In the woodlands along the riparian corridors, goldfields can be found in grassy open areas, especially now along the Bench Trail. Milkmaids and shooting stars are occupying meadows like those along the Rim Trail. The magenta-colored warrior’s plume, a root parasite poaching nutrients from the roots of other plants, is abundant in the shade beneath oaks and shrubs. Check them out if you are walking the High Peaks Loop.
Wildflowers are usually in early bloom at the Theodore Payne Foundation, but without the winter rainfall occurring in SoCal this year, visitors will have to wait to find out what wildflower species may germinate and grow after March’s recent rain. Colorful native perennials, however, always benefit from rain no matter what time of year. The hot pink of hummingbird sage, red Baja fairy duster and Nevin’s barberry growing in the demonstration garden, are attracting a different kind of visitor—hungry hummingbirds! Chilicothe and Baja spurge are show-stoppers in the Demonstration Garden this week too. Along the sales yard pathways, visitors are tempted to take a closer look and photograph the deep pink Western redbud trees and the blue-eyed grass making a showy ground cover under them. Trekking up Wildflower Hill adjacent to the sales yard, you will encounter fragrant Cedros Island verbena—a lovey lavender flowered perennial which can also be purchased at the TPF nursery!
The Iron Mountain Trail near Poway is a popular hiking route for San Diego area trekkers. On this fabulous trail, you will see hundreds of plants of the warrior’s plume which is scattered along the trailhead. Sunny slopes are covered as far as the eye can see with flowering Eastwood manzanita and mission manzanita. There are bush poppies with their large yellow flowers standing out like beacon lights among their grey foliage. Woolly leaf ceanothus is covered with buds and soon there will be hundreds of these blue-flowering shrubs in bloom. Snow drop bush is just leafing out, so it will be a month or so before it pops with lovely white blossoms!
That’s it for this week. Visit the Wildflower Hotline website to see photos of these and more wildflower sites. The Theodore Payne Foundation’s. annual Native Plant Garden Tour is April 5 & 6. Tickets are now on sale. Check the TPF website theodorepayne.org for details. The next report will be available on Friday, March 28th.
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Welcome to the Theodore Payne Foundation’s 42nd year of the Wildflower Hotline. The Hotline offers weekly on-line and recorded updates on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in L.A.
Entering mid-March, wildflower season remains quiet. Recent rainfall may bring relief to some drought-stricken areas, and annuals may awaken later this month. Rain will certainly benefit the spring bloom of perennial and woody natives. Annuals, however, are a bit more persnickety about their blooming conditions, responding only to a complex set of environmental factors occurring normally during the winter months. We shall see what happens.
Figueroa Mountain in the Los Padres National Forest is known for its dramatic gold and blue duo of blooming California poppy and lupine displays. It is also a good location to see chocolate lilies. Unfortunately, Figueroa Mt. was hit hard by the Lake Fire last July and is struggling to come back. Poppies and lupines can be found along the road, but not in great numbers or showy displays. In addition, the seasonally colorful native shrubs and perennials are now blackened skeletons in a bleak landscape. The slopes are greening up nicely however and hopefully the “green” is not just weedy grasses obscuring delicate wildflowers. The slopes below the main lookout were missed by the fire and should be populated with chocolate lilies soon after this rain current this rain event. You should visit the area. The vistas are still spectacular. Think of it as an opportunity to witness a post fire recovery and to take note of what species reappear in the landscape over the next few years.
The Hotline usually features Anza Borrego Desert State Park as a premier wildflower viewing destination during the month of March. This year however, the desert is bone dry with no great displays of the usual wildflowers. Perennials have fared a little better, especially along waterways. Hike in Coyote Canyon from second crossing along the water as much as possible, and you may see some ocotillo, brittlebush, indigo bush, white rhatany, sweetbush and silky dalea along with one species of hardy annual, desert needles. If you enjoy hiking in Anza, you may find scattered annuals far into the canyons on north facing slopes tucked in among boulders. You might need to expend some effort to find them.
A native plant garden at the Elizabeth Learning Center in Cudahy is unique for its school site Habitat Gardens. It is the site of an artificially created vernal pool that serves as a refuge for endangered fairy shrimp and threatened plants endemic to vernal pools. The garden also hosts Desert and a Chaparral habitat gardens. Wildflowers flourish here throughout the spring. The best part is that city dwellers can see most of the garden from the main street, but also can ask for a closer view with a teacher after school. Please learn how to arrange a visit by reading the online version of the Wildflower Hotline on Theodore Payne’s web page.
That’s it for this week. Visit the Wildflower Hotline website to see photos of these and more wildflower sites. The Theodore Payne Foundation’s. annual Native Plant Garden Tour is April 5 & 6. Tickets are now on sale. Check the TPF website theodorepayne.org for details. The next report will be available on Friday, March 21st.
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Welcome to the Theodore Payne Foundation’s 42nd year of the Wildflower Hotline. The Hotline offers weekly on-line and recorded updates on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in L.A.
Along the Mariposa Trail in the Irish Hills Natural Reserve in San Luis Obispo County, wildflowers are beginning to exhibit an early bloom. Colorful specie s should add to the display over the next few weeks if predicted storms release more life-giving rainfall. Look for the earliest of California’s wildflowers, red maids, milkmaids, blue dicks, chocolate lilies, hummingbird sage, shooting stars, buttercups, and California golden violets. Not a flowering plant, but the abundant gold back fern provides a lush green background for the nearby flowering beauties.
Travel across the valley into the Southern Sierra foothills. This region was fortunate to have good mid-winter rainfall and wildflowers should be nice throughout the spring. The redbuds are now flowering and dot the near and distant vista with their fuchsia-pink blossoms. Eastman’s fiddleneck and popcorn flowers are seen stippling the hillsides with yellow and white flecks of color. Catch sight too, the silver bush lupines with their blue floral spikes poking above silvery foliage. Here and there on north facing hillsides, shooting stars are in early bloom.
Also, in that area along a short 10-mile stretch of Hwy 223 between Arvin and Hwy 58, some wildflowers were observed growing in the pastoral landscapes that dominate this section of the highway. While not in abundance, there are nice displays of annual lupine, fiddlenecks and popcorn flower. Please be cautious and pull off the road if you want to inspect flowers more closely.
At the California Botanic Garden in Claremont, springtime buds and blooms are awakening from their winter dormancy. Plants along the maze of picturesque trails include coral-colored desert globemallow, various ceanothus, California redbud, California buttercups, sticky monkeyflower in a variety of warm colors. Your senses will be overwhelmed by fragrant and colorful sages as well. Several different species of perennials belonging to the sunflower family are brightening up the garden with their ubiquitous golden yellow flowers.
That’s it for this week. Visit the Wildflower Hotline website to see photos of these and more wildflower sites. The Theodore Payne Foundation’s. annual Native Plant Garden Tour is April 5 & 6. Tickets are now on sale. Check the TPF website theodorepayne.org for details. The next report will be available on Friday, March 14th.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Tom Henschel. New reports are released every Friday, March through May.
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Tom Henschel. New reports are released every Friday, March through May.
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Tom Henschel. New reports are released every Friday, March through May.
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Tom Henschel. New reports are released every Friday, March through May.
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Tom Henschel. New reports are released every Friday, March through May.
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Tom Henschel. New reports are released every Friday, March through May.
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe Spano, the Voice of the Wild Flower Hotline. New reports are released every Friday, March through May!
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe Spano, the Voice of the Wild Flower Hotline. New reports are released every Friday, March through May!
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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Hear weekly recorded wildflower reports, narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe Spano, the Voice of the Wild Flower Hotline. New reports are released every Friday, March through May!
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles.
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The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles. We balance the spectacle of annual flower displays with perennial plants and their spring color.The Hotline is meant to help people enjoy the unique and beautiful nature of Southern California. While super blooms are a beautiful and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, they are also delicate and are easily damaged by human activity, so it is important to enjoy them responsibly and minimize the impact on fragile ecosystems. Please…
Stay on designated trailsShare the trails; be respectful of othersVisit on weekdays and/or off-peak hours, if possibleDo not collect or trample wildflowersRemember your experience(s) through photosSee the full report on the Theodore Payne Foundation website.
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The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles. We balance the spectacle of annual flower displays with perennial plants and their spring color.The Hotline is meant to help people enjoy the unique and beautiful nature of Southern California. While super blooms are a beautiful and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, they are also delicate and are easily damaged by human activity, so it is important to enjoy them responsibly and minimize the impact on fragile ecosystems. Please…
Stay on designated trailsShare the trails; be respectful of othersVisit on weekdays and/or off-peak hours, if possibleDo not collect or trample wildflowersRemember your experience(s) through photosSee the full report on the Theodore Payne Foundation website.
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The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles. We balance the spectacle of annual flower displays with perennial plants and their spring color.The Hotline is meant to help people enjoy the unique and beautiful nature of Southern California. While super blooms are a beautiful and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, they are also delicate and are easily damaged by human activity, so it is important to enjoy them responsibly and minimize the impact on fragile ecosystems. Please…
Stay on designated trailsShare the trails; be respectful of othersVisit on weekdays and/or off-peak hours, if possibleDo not collect or trample wildflowersRemember your experience(s) through photosSee the full report on the Theodore Payne Foundation website.
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The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles. We balance the spectacle of annual flower displays with perennial plants and their spring color.The Hotline is meant to help people enjoy the unique and beautiful nature of Southern California. While super blooms are a beautiful and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, they are also delicate and are easily damaged by human activity, so it is important to enjoy them responsibly and minimize the impact on fragile ecosystems. Please…
Stay on designated trailsShare the trails; be respectful of othersVisit on weekdays and/or off-peak hours, if possibleDo not collect or trample wildflowersRemember your experience(s) through photos -
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles. We balance the spectacle of annual flower displays with perennial plants and their spring color.The Hotline is meant to help people enjoy the unique and beautiful nature of Southern California. While super blooms are a beautiful and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, they are also delicate and are easily damaged by human activity, so it is important to enjoy them responsibly and minimize the impact on fragile ecosystems. Please…Stay on designated trails Share the trails; be respectful of others Visit on weekdays and/or off-peak hours, if possible Do not collect or trample wildflowers Remember your experience(s) through photos
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The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles. We balance the spectacle of annual flower displays with perennial plants and their spring color.The Hotline is meant to help people enjoy the unique and beautiful nature of Southern California. While super blooms are a beautiful and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, they are also delicate and are easily damaged by human activity, so it is important to enjoy them responsibly and minimize the impact on fragile ecosystems. Please…Stay on designated trails Share the trails; be respectful of others Visit on weekdays and/or off-peak hours, if possible Do not collect or trample wildflowers Remember your experience(s) through photos
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The acclaimed Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in Los Angeles. We balance the spectacle of annual flower displays with perennial plants and their spring color.The Hotline is meant to help people enjoy the unique and beautiful nature of Southern California. While super blooms are a beautiful and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, they are also delicate and are easily damaged by human activity, so it is important to enjoy them responsibly and minimize the impact on fragile ecosystems. Please…Stay on designated trails Share the trails; be respectful of others Visit on weekdays and/or off-peak hours, if possible Do not collect or trample wildflowers Remember your experience(s) through photos
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