Super bloom

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Super Bloom - California, Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument (2019.) 📷 Tim Fitzharris

As the super bloom continues, rangers have had to unsnarl traffic jams, keep visitors from trampling wildflowers and even wave away helicopters

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California's wildflower season is fast approaching. The Carrizo Plain has been the site of super blooms in the past. Visit MK Library's wildflower guide to see what this year has in store!

Every year around this time, I see photos pop up on my Facebook feed of people frolicking in fields of budding flowers and every year I swear I’m going to plan a day trip to do the …

In a first glimpse of spring, the California desert is starting to pop with wildflowers, and the upcoming season promises to be a big one. Just like the Golden State’s explosion of color two years ago, 2019 is shaping up to a be a super bloom that will be at least as amazing as 2017 and maybe more so at many locations, says California nature guide author Ann Marie Brown. What makes a bloom “super”?

Thanks to the extra water from unprecedented snow storms this March, vast fields of poppies, buttercups, and lilies have erupted en masse, touching even the more arid parts of the state that typically sit outside of super bloom territory. This year’s bloom is so grand, in fact, that you can even see its spread from outer space.