From the mist-shrouded San Francisco Bay Area to the deserts of Arizona, there are flashes of color popping up following an unusually wet winter.
LOS ANGELES -- 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." North of Los Angeles, visitors from around the globe have been making the trek to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve to see the burst of orange and yellow flowers, which extended well beyond the park's borders this year. On a recent afternoon, people pulled over along the freeway to shoot selfies with California's official state flower.
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