Yes, wildflowers are blooming in central Arizona right now ... go to a garden or a campus that irrigates. ASU has some beautiful displays of some of our regional cultivated flora.

For more mileage, more hills, and more beautiful desert, keep going north a few more miles and turn around at the Beeline Highway (whether or not you stopped at the lake). Overall, it's a ...

The white-margined penstemon (Penstemon albomarginatus) grows in four distinct population centers: Clark and Nye counties in Nevada; San Bernardino County in California; and Arizona’s Mohave County.