Flower identification bottom left, clockwise: Eriogonum ovalifolium, Astragalus albens, Calochortus striatus,Arabus parishii, Phlox dolicantha, Calochortus striatus, Erigeron parishii, Sidalcea pedata
BIG BEAR LAKE, CALIF. — Blossoms not found anywhere else on Earth can be seen on Spring tours at Baldwin Lake Ecological Reserve in Southern California’s San Bernardino mountains. Take a self-guided tour or go with a botanist and volunteers of the Southern California Mountains Foundation on free interpretive hikes that depart at 11:30 a.m. each Saturday through June 29, 2013.
Once a glacier lake (Pleistocene era 10,000 years ago,) a combination of unique soils, thousands of years of the swelling and shrinking…read more>
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