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See Wild Photos of California Plastered in a Poppy Superbloom

Written by RJ MickelsonPublished Apr. 28, 2023 • 8:00am
Poppies and other wildflowers have exploded near the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. | George Rose/Getty Images

As the weather gets warmer, California’s historic 2023 superbloom will soon fade into the hillsides and fields where it began. Before it does, take a look at the photo gallery below with a glimpse of the eye-popping color seen around the Golden State this spring.

And before the blasts of poppies, mustard, oxalis and other wildflowers are scattered to the wind, get out for a walk to see spring flowers in the city, the Wine Country or in gardens all around the Bay Area.

People walk amid wildflowers blooming in Carrizo Plain National Monument near Santa Margarita, California, on April 13, 2023, following an unusually wet winter. Historic levels of rain fell in some parts of California, amid a barrage of atmospheric river winter storms, which has led to a superbloom of wildflowers in certain parts of the state. | Mario Tama/Getty Images

In an aerial view, the colors of various wildflower species appear to paint Temblor Range, a mountain range that rises from the east side of the San Andreas Fault at Carrizo Plain National Monument, near Santa Margarita, California, on April 15, 2023. Spectacular wildflower blooms are occurring across much of California following a historically wet season that drove 31 atmospheric river storms through the region, resulting in widespread flooding and record snow depths in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. | David McNew/Getty Images
Following record winter rains, colorful poppies and other wildflowers have exploded on this high desert landscape near the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, north of Los Angeles. | George Rose/Getty Images
Colorful mustard, goldfields, poppies and other wildflowers have exploded along Highway 41, located on the San Luis Obispo, Kern and Monterey County borders, as viewed on April 12, 2023, near Cholame, California. | George Rose/Getty Images
People gather and take photos in a field with blooming poppy flowers on April 14, 2023, near the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve near Lancaster, California, following an unusually wet winter. | Mario Tama/Getty Images
Poppies, goldfields, fiddlenecks and other wildflowers bloom across the hills at the popular Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve north of Los Angeles on April 2, 2023. | George Rose/Getty Images
Triana Montserrat zip-lines over wildflowers at Skull Canyon Ziplines in Corona, California, on April 11, 2023. Vast stretches of countryside that spend months of the year as a muted, dry brown have been transformed into a carpet of color that can be seen from space. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

RJ Mickelson can be reached at [email protected]

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