PRE-PEAK...

...but you'll catch the peak-peak if you leave home RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE!!

Baby Blue Eyes

Fun with Baby Blue Eyes

Pitcher Sage

Blue-Dick

Wood Violet

Chocolate Lilly

White Layia

White Layia, closer

Tidy Tips

Tidy Tips, closer

Hillside Daisy

Broadleaf Filaree (Stork's Bill), en masse

Broadleaf Filaree, closer

Blue Phaecilia (Wild Heliotrope) en masse

Blue Phaecelia, closer

Goldfields, en masse

Goldfileds, a small patch

Popcorn

Henderson's (Foothill) Shooting Star, en masse

Henderson's (Foothill) Shooting Star, closer

Manzanita

Bird's Eye Gilia

Menzies' Fiddleneck

Blue Witch (nightshade)

Indian Paintbrush

Bush (Sticky) Monkeyflower

California Dodder. There has been some confusion about its proper classification, but in most references this parasitic plant is included as a member of the Morning Glory family. I used to just call it "Witch's Hair" until I found it in a wildflower field guide; it actually bears tiny tiny flowers in the Summer!

Bush Poppy

Lindley's Silverpuff

Blue-Eyed Grass

Flowers were found in the following California locations: Figueroa Mtn. (Los Padres National Forest), Carrizo Plain National Monument and Shell Creek Road, Pinnacles National Monument, Jolon Road (Monterey County) and California Highways 41, 166, 58 and 25.