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Re: Hite's Cove Wildflower Updates......
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Re: Hite's Cove Wildflower Updates...... April 04, 2011 11:00PM |
Saturday did some wildflower work along serpentine areas of state route 49 between Sonora and Mariposa. By mid afternoon became too breezy for still flowers so I spent some time checking other areas in the region. Thus late afternoon drove into the lower Merced River Canyon. Noticed redbud were near peak which normally occurs early to mid March. The big steep grassland slopes were lushly green but showed little color and rather unusual few roadside flowers of any species yet blooming. It was also cloudy so any poppies would have been closed up much of the day. As a comparison the peak of the incredible 2009 bloom was between March 10 and March 24. Would expect at least a couple weeks will need to pass.
Given the recent March deluge, along SR49 serpentine areas is an explosion of yellow species, goldfields, madia, common monkeyflowers, butter-and-eggs and could see green herbs of other usual species like clarkias just rising. So hopefully the Merced River canyon areas that always bloom a bit later given a few warm sunny days will be following.
Buckbrush and goldfields
Madia and tidy tips:
Here madia, goldfields, birds-eye-gilia, and a few early clarkia:
David Senesac
http://www.davidsenesac.com
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/04/2011 11:01PM by DavidSenesac.
Given the recent March deluge, along SR49 serpentine areas is an explosion of yellow species, goldfields, madia, common monkeyflowers, butter-and-eggs and could see green herbs of other usual species like clarkias just rising. So hopefully the Merced River canyon areas that always bloom a bit later given a few warm sunny days will be following.
Buckbrush and goldfields
Madia and tidy tips:
Here madia, goldfields, birds-eye-gilia, and a few early clarkia:
David Senesac
http://www.davidsenesac.com
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/04/2011 11:01PM by DavidSenesac.
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