20 March 07
Fiddleneck
These fiddlenecks ( Amsinkia menziesii var. intermedia) are now in bloom on the south side of the alfalfa field by our house. They are a native flower found often in disturbed areas at lower elevations in California. This past Sunday we went to a picnic at a friend’s place on the top of a hill west of Winters, in the eastern foothills of the Coast Range. The fiddlenecks there are much further along and are starting to go to seed. Many of the other wildflowers there seem to blooming early this year as well.
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The first of the bluebells are already in flower here – judging from last year’s blog entries a good two weeks earlier than 2006…