flowers – Alison Pearce Stevens https://apstevens.com Adventures in nature and science Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:17:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/apstevens.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cropped-site-icon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 flowers – Alison Pearce Stevens https://apstevens.com 32 32 79253410 Death Valley in full bloom https://apstevens.com/death-valley-in-full-bloom/ Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:41:54 +0000 http://apstevens.com/?p=652 Death Valley is one of the hottest places on the planet, and most of the time, it’s sandy and barren. But when rain falls, all that changes. Seeds that lay hidden in the soil (sometimes for years) burst open and the desert blooms. This year, that bloom is exceptional. Twenty different kinds of flowering plants currently paint Death Valley dunes a kaleidoscope of color.

It’s called a “superbloom” and you can check it out here:

 

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