Bloom Photo

Home   >   Natural History Photography Blog   >   Search   >   Bloom   >         photos@oceanlight.com   (760) 707-7153 Cholla cactus, brittlebush, ocotillo and various cacti and wildflowers color the sides of Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10975   Species: Opuntia, Encelia farinosa, Fouquieria splendens Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Brittlebush at sunrise, dawn, springtime bloom, Palm Canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 24301   Species: Brittlebush, Encelia farinosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Brittlebush blooms in spring, Palm Canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 24304   Species: Brittlebush, Encelia farinosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Spring wildflower blooms on the Eureka sand dunes. Image ID: 25245   Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA   Brittlebush, ocotillo and various cacti and wildflowers color the sides of Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10896   Species: Brittlebush, Encelia farinosa, Fouquieria splendens Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Barrel cactus, brittlebush and wildflowers color the sides of Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10899   Species: Red barrel cactus, Ferocactus cylindraceus, Encelia farinosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Barrel cactus, Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10906   Species: Red barrel cactus, Ferocactus cylindraceus Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Lupine color the sides of the Borrego Valley in spring. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10969   Species: Arizona lupine, Lupinus arizonicus Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Crown daisy blooms in Spring. Image ID: 11367   Species: Crown daisy, Chrysanthemum coronarium Location: San Diego, California, USA   Lupine (species unidentified) blooms in spring. Image ID: 11395   Species: Lupine, Lupinus Location: Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA   Lupine (species unidentified) blooms in spring. Image ID: 11408   Species: Lupine, Lupinus Location: Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA   Lupine (species unidentified) blooms in spring. Image ID: 11414   Species: Lupine, Lupinus Location: Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA   Desert agave, also known as the Century Plant, blooms in spring in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Desert agave is the only agave species to be found on the rocky slopes and flats bordering the Coachella Valley. It occurs over a wide range of elevations from 500 to over 4,000. It is called century plant in reference to the amount of time it takes it to bloom. This can be anywhere from 5 to 20 years. They send up towering flower stalks that can approach 15 feet in height. Sending up this tremendous display attracts a variety of pollinators including bats, hummingbirds, bees, moths and other insects and nectar-eating birds. Image ID: 11550   Species: Desert agave, Agave deserti   Red barrel flower bloom, cactus detail, spines and flower on top of the cactus, Glorietta Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 24303   Species: Red barrel cactus, Ferocactus cylindraceus Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Dune primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) bloom in spring in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, mixing in a rich display of desert color. Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 10459   Species: Dune primrose, Oenothera deltoides, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Sand verbena carpets sand dunes and washes in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Sand verbena blooms throughout the Colorado Desert following rainy winters. Image ID: 10462   Species: Sand verbena, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Desert Lily blooms in the sandy soils of the Colorado Desert. It is fragrant and its flowers are similar to cultivated Easter lilies. Image ID: 10543   Species: Desert lily, Hesperocallis undulata Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   California poppy plants viewed from the perspective of a bug walking below the bright orange blooms. Image ID: 20539   Species: California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, Eschscholtzia californica Location: Del Dios, San Diego, California, USA   Sand verbena carpets sand dunes and washes in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Sand verbena blooms throughout the Colorado Desert following rainy winters. Image ID: 10492   Species: Sand verbena, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Sand verbena blooms in spring in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Sand verbena blooms throughout the Colorado Desert following rainy winters. Image ID: 10493   Species: Sand verbena, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Sand verbena blooms in spring in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Sand verbena blooms throughout the Colorado Desert following rainy winters. Image ID: 10497   Species: Sand verbena, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Brown-eyed primrose blooms in spring in the Colorado Desert following heavy winter rains. Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 10522   Species: Brown-eyed primrose, Camissonia claviformis Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Barrel cactus, Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10905   Species: Red barrel cactus, Ferocactus cylindraceus Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Anza Borrego, California, USA   Corn lily blooms near Vogelsang Lake, in shade at sunrise. Image ID: 25762   Species: Corn lily, California false hellebore, Veratrum californicum Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Purple lupine flowers bloom in late summer, along a stream that feeds to Lake Evelyn in the high Sierra Nevada near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. Image ID: 25763   Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Townsley Lake (10396'), a beautiful alpine lake sitting below blue sky, clouds and Fletcher Peak (right), lies amid the Cathedral Range of glacier-sculpted granite peaks in Yosemite's high country, near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. Image ID: 23219   Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Spring wildflower blooms on the Eureka sand dunes. Image ID: 25342   Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA   Spring flower bloom in Joshua Tree National Park. Image ID: 26749   Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA   Desert agave, also known as the Century Plant, blooms in spring in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Desert agave is the only agave species to be found on the rocky slopes and flats bordering the Coachella Valley. It occurs over a wide range of elevations from 500 to over 4,000. It is called century plant in reference to the amount of time it takes it to bloom. This can be anywhere from 5 to 20 years. They send up towering flower stalks that can approach 15 feet in height. Sending up this tremendous display attracts a variety of pollinators including bats, hummingbirds, bees, moths and other insects and nectar-eating birds. Image ID: 11551   Species: Desert agave, Agave deserti   Elk graze and rest among wildflowers blooming in the Gibbon Meadow, summer. Image ID: 13159   Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Gibbon Meadows, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

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