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• eNature Online Field Guides

• Wildflowers for Butterfly Gardens

• Wildflowers for Woodland Gardens

• DC Wild Flower Season & Locations

• Virginia Native Plant Society Links of Interest

• http://www.loudouncountymastergardeners.org/

• Desert Wildflower Watch

• Arizona/Sonora Desert Museum Wildflower Resource

• DesertUSA Wildflower Guide

• http://www.wildflower.org/explore/

  Top Spring Wildflower Locations

  Arizona

• Desert Wildflower Watch, ~March

• Arizona/Sonora Desert Museum Wildflower Resource

• DesertUSA Wildflower Guide

• Desert Botanical Garden (covers Arizona, phone hotline open only during March and April)

• Arizona State Parks website has a wildflower link with some images. Click on the Rangercam drop-down menu at the bottom of the page.

• Lost Dutchman State Park

• Buenos Aires NWR

• Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

• Picacho Peak State Park

  California

• California Wildflower Hotsheet (Posts current reports for CA sites)
• Theodore Payne Foundation (covers southern California, phone hotline open only during March and April)

• Desert Wildflower Watch

• Individual Parks
• Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve (This third-party site has much more detail than the park's official website)
• Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (California, ~Feb)
• Joshua Tree National Park (California, links to another site)
• Carrizo Plain National Monument

  Colorado

• http://www.crestedbuttewildflowerfestival.com/
• A Guide to Colorado's Best Photography Locations

  North Carolina

• Grandfather Mountain, www.grandfather.com

  South Carolina

• South Carolina Botanical Garden, www.clemson.edu/scbg
• Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway, http://www.lake-hartwell.com/Scenic11/Scenic11.htm

  Tennessee

• Reflection Riding, www.reflectionriding.org

 Texas  ~April

• Edwards Plateau, www.wildflower.org

  Virginia

• DC Wild Flower Season & Locations

• Virginia Native Plant Society Links of Interest

• Bles Park, 44830 Riverside Parkway, Ashburn/Sterling, VA
•    (Bles is somewhat behind the GW Campus, take Rte 7 to GW Blvd to the North end of Riverside)
• Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, VA
• Field of Flowers, Purcellville, VA
• Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area, www.dgif.state.va.us/hunting/WMA/clinch_mountain.html
• Pinnacle Nature Area Preserve, www.dcr.virginia.gov/dnh/pinnacle.htm
• Blue Ridge Parkway, http://www.nps.gov/blri/index.htm

  West Virginia

• Cranberry Mountain Nature Center, www.fs.fed.us/r9/mnf/sp/naturecenter.html
• Sunshine Farms, barry@sunfarm.com
• Enchanter's Garden, open by appointment April-Aug 304-466-3154

Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, Atkins, Menasha Ridge Press, 2005

Central Appalachian Wildflowers, Medina, The Globe Pequot Press, 2002

Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail, Atkins, Menasha Ridge Press, 1999

Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Alderman, The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

 British Columbia

•  Gulf Islands, May

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