When other plants start hunkering down, clarkias send up a dazzling array of purples and pinks.
Tag: wildflowers
Spring Issue 2023
Wildflower Lands Now Open in the East Bay Hills
Explore 20 miles of new trails and over 2,800 acres of serene hills and woodlands, now added to the East Bay’s Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park.
Botany
The Calypso Orchid—Shady Trickster of the Understory
This fancy flower is secretive yet brash, and it’s an expert in the art of deceiving bumblebees.
Spring Issue 2022
Annotated Nature: a Vernal Pool in Spring
Wildflowers bloom like fireworks as winter water dries up in the vernal pool ecosystems of Jepson Prairie.
Botany
What Does Trampling Do to Wildflowers?
How much damage does trampling do to wildflowers? No other state is as iconic for its flora as California, so it’s no surprise that thousands of Californians have flocked to Southern California to experience wildflower heaven in this year’s “super … Read more
Spring Issue 2019
California Wildflowers and Climate Change
Rob Badger’s collection goes by the title “Beauty and the Beast”
Spring Issue 2018
What Wildflowers Tell You About the North Bay Fires
In burned areas of the North Bay, spring bloom patterns reveal burn patterns.
Spring Issue 2017
What Leads to Great Wildflowers? The Formula’s Not Always So Easy.
A lot of rain isn’t always the magic formula for flowers.
Botany, Diablo Recovery
In the Third Spring After the Morgan Fire, Just Add Water to Mount Diablo for Flowers
With 38 inches of rain at the top of the mountain since last summer, the bloom has been great all over Mount Diablo.
