Wild Flower Hotline March 28, 2025

Friday, March 28 2025

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. Please support the Wildflower Hotline.

The herbaceous perennials, woody shrubs, and trees have leafed-out and are blossoming well following the mid-March rain events. A few hardy annuals have started to appear like goldfields, fiddlenecks, popcorn flowers and some lupine species. It doesn’t seem promising for wild landscape super blooms. Our best wildflower shows in Southern California are at maintained gardens like Theodore Payne, California Botanic Garden, and home  ...