Last year’s superbloom was epic, from Lake Elsinore’s hillsides of golden poppies to Anza Borrego‘s carpets of desert daisies. But Southern California’s patchwork of microclimates makes it hard to make a universal prediction about wildflower displays throughout the area. Visitors walk on a meandering path through Lancaster’s fields of California poppies in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve in March 2019. The area received 1.5 inches of rain in November and 1 inch of rain in December, not dazzling moisture totals. Desert sunflowers surround a photographer during a rare superbloom of wildflowers in Death Valley National Park in 2016.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 24, 2020 16:03 UTC