Return of the native

Late March, and its time for the annual pilgrimage to visit the desert wildflower blooms. Photos from Anza Borrego's Coyote Canyon, March 20th 2010.






the meadow floor:
lupins, dandelions, chicory.








desert lily, Hesperocallis undulata.
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperocallis
but it looks so much like a desert-adapted version of
common Bay Area "Soap Plants" , with such similar ruffled leaves,
I expected it to be a Chlorogalum.
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Chlorogalum+pomeridianum
I'd put money on this eventually classified as a Soap Plant, whatever family that ends up being.









California poppies on the canyon walls








Mimulus bigelovii, a small pink monkey flower