{"id":486,"date":"2008-03-03T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/anza-borrego-desert-wildflowers\/"},"modified":"2020-03-08T03:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:23:47","slug":"anza-borrego-desert-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/anza-borrego-desert-wildflowers.html","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Anza-Borrego Desert Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got out for a quick look at some wildflowers at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park<\/a> on Sunday morning. I got out there at 6am just as the sun was rising, and by 8am the light had grown so harsh I put my camera away and just hiked around. The bloom is definitely on and will be going for a few weeks I think. My guess is that it will be good but not great, at least not surpassing the bloom of a few (was it three?) springs ago, but at least it is better than the poor showings we had the last two years. One thing I noticed was a huge abundance of desert lilies<\/a>. In one area I hiked, I had a hard time finding a place to step without smashing small desert lilies, they were everywhere. The cluster shown here, composed of white dune evening primrose<\/a> and purple sand verbena<\/a>, is literally inches from Henderson Canyon Road.<\/p>\n

\"Dune<\/a><\/p>\n

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.
\nImage ID: 20466<\/a>
\nSpecies: Dune Evening Primrose<\/a>, Sand Verbena<\/a>, Oenothera deltoides<\/i><\/a>, Abronia villosa<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park<\/a>, Anza Borrego<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got out for a quick look at some wildflowers at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park on Sunday morning. I got out there at 6am just as the sun was rising, and by 8am the light had grown so harsh I put my camera away and just hiked around. The bloom…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,67,379,133],"tags":[382,205,221,267,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"category-desert","9":"category-the-american-southwest","10":"category-wildflowers","11":"tag-american-southwest","12":"tag-anza-borrego","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-landscape","15":"tag-wildflowers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}