Newcomer Wildflowers First Two Weeks of April 2011

Despite our topsy-turvey weather this spring; cold storms bringing rain, snow, sleet, and gusting winds to our scenic central coast spot on the map, determined new-blooming wildflowers insist on raising their slender stems above the soaking soil to bring us the beauty of their flowers.

Some of these newly appearing flowers are so small that photographing them is quite a challenge. Some flower-heads are barely 1/4 of an inch in diameter !

This posting's flowers include: tidytips, bellardia, bur chervil, splendid mariposa lily, blue scarlet pimpernel, and coast lotus to mention only a few.

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New Wildflowers March 25 2011

Despite brisk winds and flooding in many areas from this past week's soaking rainfall, wildflowers continue to grow and stick their heads up, bringing some much needed color to our wet trails and roadsides.

Some of the new flowers that have shown up since the middle of March are: chocolate lilies, buttercups, suncups, lupines, clovers, sweet peas, vetches, cudweeds, shooting stars, cutleaf geranium, tidy tips and footsteps of spring.

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New Wild Flowers for March 15, 2011

As spring starts to take over from winter, more and more wildflowers are poking their heads up to enjoy the warmer weather.

These flowers include: blue-eyed grass, Bentham's lotus, bull mallow, trefoils, California everlasting, bur clover, thistles, chickweed, miner's lettuce, milkmaids, pineapple weed, and purple vetch to name a few.

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