wildflowerdates
Wildflowerdates tracks when North America's wildflower blooms peak, desert floor to alpine meadow, for anyone planning a trip around one. It calls superbloom years from winter rain at NOAA stations against each desert's past big years, and names public reserves and roads only — never an exact pin.
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The whole argument sits in one chart: five elevation bands stacked alpine to desert floor, each bloom a pale bar with a saturated core for its best weeks, cut by a dotted rule marking this week. The palette does the explaining — cool blue at altitude sliding through greens and olives to desert amber — so the lede’s claim that spring climbs the map like a ladder lands before the sentence does. Below, the page goes quiet: a scalloped violet divider, then short sections in a narrow measure with plain links out. The yellow BLOOMING NOW button is the only loud thing here.
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