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- A man wades waist-deep through millions of desert wildflowers in California’s Anza Borrego State Park. The park’s annual spring bloom has produced a rare superbloom this year due to good winter rains and unusual warm spring temperatures.
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- Joshua trees are all blooming, a rare event in northern Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. Usually only bushes, some of the plants are 30 or 40 feet tall.
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- Dagger cactus sports a giant flower. During a few weeks in the spring these cactus blooms can be two or three feet long and weigh 40 pounds.
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- Desert sunflowers in the foreground and a blooming ocotillo behind them are momentary features of Mojave National Trails Monument in California. Ocotillos are normally a drab gray but turn green and sport vermillion flowers immediately after rain.
