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Sedona Visitors Enjoy
Spring Wildflowers
of the
Sonoran Desert

Picacho Peak Poppies
Sonoran Desert Wildflowers in Spring - Click HERE for larger view

Sedona, AZ: Spring in Arizona is the season residents and visitors alike wait for in eager anticipation.
The desert terrain bursts into a canvas of unimaginable beauty as delicate desert wildflowers blanket the landscape. It doesn't take much of an excuse and is well worth a day to escape to the southern sections of the state to partake in this visual feast and the Arizona State Parks offer some of the most beautiful locations to view the lavish colors and textures of spring.

Rising up from the desert floor and looking much like camel's hump off on the horizon, Picacho Peak
has long held the interest of travelers to the Sonoran Desert. Thousands of visitors make the trek to the small but venerable state park every year to see spring's spectacular bounty. 

Picacho Peak PoppiesIn March, the Peak's craggy slopes are softened by a matting of verdant new growth and covered in splashes of orange and yellow, the large swaths of the Mexican Gold Poppy visible from the freeway.

<< Mexican Gold Poppy
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The obviously volcanic origins of the formation are recently understood to be eroded rock from a lava flow. Desert Chickory PoppiesThe dark, rugged terrain makes an interesting contrast to the burst of color carpeting the ground. Coulters's Lupine, desert chicory (shown right)  and wild heliotrope mix with the fields of poppies or hide beneath the shelter of rock and cactus.

Sonoran Desert Blooms in the Spring - PenstemonWild Lupine with Poppies







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