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Post by drm » May 12th, 2023, 1:08 pm

Another place to get a great bloom now. In the past my memory is that it was best below the trailhead - not so this year. Maybe a super bloom for this area. I started at the crack of dawn (9:30am) to get the right amount of warm. It was mid 60s and mine was the only car at the trailhead, which was a surprise. The very steep road is in good shape and I assume most cars could make it. The profuse balsamroot lower down gave way to barestem desert parsley and others above above.
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I looked this up - dagger pod?
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Mt Adams and - what on earth is that on the left? Can that be natural?
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A nice view down into the middle section of Swale Canyon
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And the super bloom [sic] below with Hood on the throne
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Post by adamschneider » May 12th, 2023, 5:35 pm

It might be a good year for flowers, but a "superbloom" is a phenomenon specific to deserts, where rain causes dormant seeds to sprout and you get a few years of blooms all at once.

(You could MAYBE use "superbloom" to describe out-of-the-ordinary explosions of beargrass or other mysteriously periodic plants, but the balsamroot in the Gorge doesn't qualify.)

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Post by drm » May 13th, 2023, 6:12 am

"Better than average bloom" doesn't flow the same way.

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Post by nate » May 14th, 2023, 2:29 pm

Looks super to me.

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Post by Davey » May 17th, 2023, 9:51 am

What on earth! is very likely the vast canola bloom of the Amery farm.

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Post by adamschneider » May 17th, 2023, 10:08 am

Davey wrote:
May 17th, 2023, 9:51 am
What on earth! is very likely the vast canola bloom of the Amery farm.
Yup, it's on both sides of Hartland Road between Centerville Highway and High Prairie Road.

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