Welcome to the Theodore Payne Foundation’s 42nd year of the Wildflower Hotline. The Hotline offers weekly on-line and recorded updates on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California. All locations are on easily accessible public lands and range from urban to wild, distant to right here in L.A.

Entering mid-March, wildflower season remains quiet. Recent rainfall may bring relief to some drought-stricken areas, and annuals may awaken later this month. Rain will certainly benefit the spring bloom of perennial and woody natives. Annuals, however, are a bit more persnickety about their blooming conditions, responding only to a complex set of environmental factors occurring normally during the winter months. We shall see what happens.