The dusty hillsides of Southern California ’s Anza - Borrego desert are all of a sudden awash with color . In the wake of a super - wet wintertime watch over by fond weather , vast swathes of Southern California are experiencing a “ super peak ” of yellowish and purple wildflower .

The bloom actually started in December with the blossom of the white desert lily , but thing really got going in the past few weeks with the burst of pink Bigelow ’s Monkey Flower , Parish poppies , regal Sand Verbena , Ghost Flowers , and yellow Evening Primrose .

wild flower seeds often havethick or waxy coatings that allow them tolie in the desert soil for years and suddenly burst to life when they know the right combination of water and temperature .

In topnotch blooms you may get peak , which in some shell , are thought to be nonextant , " Richard Minnich , a professor of land scientific discipline at University of California , toldKQED .

Along with some much need colour , the super blossom will bring some other guests to the desert : butterfly stroke . In turn , they will bring out Caterpillar , who will then snack on the flowers , and so the cycle continues .

“ The cycle of animation , that ’s the dish of a desert bloom , that ’s what the story is all about , ” according to theAnza - Borrego Desert State Park Natural History Association .

“ That ’s what the color is tell us ; it ’s life run on ! ”

Typically , you’re able to expect to see a super bloom like this every decade . However , this is the 2nd time this corner of southern California has experience a tops bloom in two years , the last beingin 2017 . While it makes for a pretty sight , it is very strange to have two super flower in two twelvemonth , only made possible by very specific circumstance : a rainy but cold former wintertime , followed by a lovesome late winter .

gauge by the atmospheric condition forecasts , it looks like the deserts of southern   California are only going to get brighter .

“ It ’s going to be honest than it ’s been in the last dozen or so years , ” Mike McElhatton , educational political platform director of the Anza - Borrego Desert State Park Natural History Association , toldAccuWeather .

“ The rainwater has hit us nearly perfectly , ” McElhatton said . “ We are going to have a really widespread heyday ; in the past , we have seen only small concentrations in select valleys . This year , it already appears that a Brobdingnagian majority of the 50 - mile parkland will be in bloom . ”