From the San Francisco Bay to the Mexican border and across the deserts of Arizona, flashes of color are popping up after an unusually wet winter helped produce a so-called “Superbloom.”
The tiny rain-fed wildflowers, no bigger than a few inches, are so vivid and abundant across California this year that their hues of purple and yellow look like paint swatches from space.
“One of the things unique about this year is how incredibly widespread it is,” said Naomi Fraga, director of conservation programs at the California Botanic Garden. “It’s pretty spectacular.”Superblooms often follow wet winters, according to experts. University of California ecologists have counted 10 Superblooms in Southern California’s Anza-Borrego Desert over four decades. Nine of the 10 blooms occurred after winters when precipitation was higher than average.
A man rides a bike by blooming wildflowers on Thursday, April 13, 2023, in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona.
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