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Wildflowers are blooming across Southern California, but this year's display falls short of a superbloom due to a lack of diversity and vibrancy despite ample winter rains

April is typically the peak month for spring wildflowers, but in high-elevation places, they can continue to blossom later into the spring.

After especially wet winters, bursts of color may appear in the spring, drawing droves of visitors to California and other parts of the Southwest to glimpse the flowering fields and pose for pictures

Carpets of yellow, orange and gold flowers are beginning to cover Southern California's vast deserts, the Bay Area's dramatic bluffs and even near Los Angeles International Airport.

April is typically the peak month for spring wildflowers, but in high-elevation places, they can continue to blossom later into the spring.

April is typically the peak month for spring wildflowers, but in high-elevation places, they can continue to blossom later into the spring.

Carpets of yellow, orange and gold flowers are beginning to cover Southern Californias vast deserts, the Bay Areas dramatic bluffs and even near Los Angeles International Airport.

The Theodore Payne Wild Flower Hotline dedicates their weekly reports to everything wildflower in California

Sage Against the Machine is an L.A.-based band of punk-rock native plant nerds who might do for native plants what the Beach Boys did for surfing.

April is a stellar month for celebrating native plants, from wildflower hunting (when they arrive) to the Los Angeles Times' Festival of Books, plus lots of plant activities.