Carrizo Plain’s Superbloom of 2019

April 9, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

The Carrizo Plain wildflowers were fabulous this year! Thank you for looking in!

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Page 1—To open the slides, click on any image, use controls to toggle info or advance slides. Gallery photos by Barbara Swanson.
Page 2—Click below—Blog and slides by Lee.
Page 3—Click below—An interactive Google map of visited areas geotagged to photos.

A loggerhead shrike with grasshopper

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A western meadowlark on barbed wire range fence

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A stand of purple haze, in the mustard family

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Tickseed on the hill crowns

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Valley larkspur near Soda Lake

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Mallow among goldfields flowers and owl's clover

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After peak colors of goldfield and owl's clover

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Owl's Clover

<img src="https://greenearthplanet.com/wp-content/gallery/carrizo-plain-2019-barbara/cache/OwlsClover_800.jpg-nggid03273-ngg0dyn-360x240x100-00f0w010c011r110f110r010t010.jpg" title="Owl's Clover" alt="Owl's Clover" width="360" height="240" style="max-width:100%; height: auto;"/>

Owl's Clover in valley grasses and tick weed

<img src="https://greenearthplanet.com/wp-content/gallery/carrizo-plain-2019-barbara/cache/OwlsClover2_800.jpg-nggid03274-ngg0dyn-360x240x100-00f0w010c011r110f110r010t010.jpg" title="Owl's Clover in valley grasses and tick weed" alt="Owl's Clover in valley grasses and tick weed" width="360" height="240" style="max-width:100%; height: auto;"/>

Painted Rock takes on a lizard-like form from this angle

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Western rattlesnake

<img src="https://greenearthplanet.com/wp-content/gallery/carrizo-plain-2019-barbara/cache/Rattler_800.jpg-nggid03276-ngg0dyn-360x240x100-00f0w010c011r110f110r010t010.jpg" title="Western rattlesnake" alt="Western rattlesnake" width="360" height="240" style="max-width:100%; height: auto;"/>

Goldfields in the Soda Lake area

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Tick weed hillsides in the Temblors

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