Home | Categories | National Parks | Hotels | Site Map | Photographs | QTVR | Whats New? | More... CALIFORNIA Index | Introduction | Photographs | QTVR | Driving Distances | Map | Weather | Hotels Wildflowers of Anza Borrego Desert State Park Sites in California NPS Units Cabrillo Death Valley Devils Postpile Golden Gate Joshua Tree Kings Canyon Lassen Volcanic Lava Beds Mojave Muir Woods Pinnacles Point Reyes Redwood Sequoia Yosemite Other Places Anza Borrego Desert Big Basin Redwoods Big Sur Bodie SHP California Missions Humboldt Redwoods Lake Tahoe Palm Springs Point Lobos More Locations... Algodones Dunes Andrew Molera SP Big Pine Lakes Box Canyon Calico Ghost Town Donner Memorial SP Garrapata SP Giant Sequoia NM Hot Creek Indian Canyons Jacumba Natural Area Julia Pfeiffer Burns SP Mammoth Lakes Mono Lake Mount Shasta Pinnacles NNL Prairie Creek Redwoods Rainbow Basin NNL Red Rock Canyon SP Route 66 Salton Sea San Gabriel Mountains Torrey Pines Trinidad State Beach California Site Map Site Search Enter your search terms this site all the web Submit search form Anza Borrego Desert State Park > Wildflowers As with all other desert areas of the Southwest, Anza Borrego Desert State Park is most colorful in spring and early summer, when many species of flowers, cacti and bushes come into bloom. The extent, duration and quality of the flowers is quite dependant on climatic factors such as winter rainfall, average spring temperatures and even the amount of wind. The season begins in the lowest deserts in late February and moves through higher land to the mountain slopes and upper canyons in May, although some species of cacti bloom at other times throughout the summer. The best time is usually from late March to early April, and the park offers a wildflower notification service, whereby interested parties may register to be contacted by post a few weeks before the predicted peak. Flowers are found across most of the park, all but high mountains, rocky hillsides, badlands and some sandy desert regions. Favourite locations include: Borrego Palm Canyon - a sheltered canyon with palm trees and many other plants. Plum Canyon - a side canyon of San Felipe Creek Valley, south of CA 78. Culp Valley - a higher elevation area near the eastern park boundary along S22. Flowering plants can be grouped into three basic types: Cacti/succulents - cholla, opuntia, ferocactus (barrel cactus), mammillaria, echinocereus, mojave yucca and agave. Bushes - ocotillo, indigo bush, brittlebush, desert willow, chuparosa, palo verde, desert lavender and creosote bush. Wildflowers - numerous smaller plants, ranging from tiny species less than 1 cm across like the Bigelow monkey flower to the datura, whose large white blooms may be up to 6 inches in diameter. Photographs 8 views of flowers and cacti in Anza Borrego Desert State Park Desert barrel cactus Back to Top Arizona | California | Colorado | Nevada | New Mexico | Texas | Utah | Wyoming | Slot Canyons | Travelogue | SOUTHWEST

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