GRANITE BAY, Calif. -- A dry Folsom Lake now has waves of bright, purple wildflowers swaying in the breeze. But the beauty comes with a gloomier sign. The super bloom of lupine that blankets the ...

Winter showers bring spring flowers. Wildflowers are in bloom in Mount Diablo. NBC Bay Area’s SkyRanger flew overhead Monday and bursts of yellow flowers were spotted against the green hilltops.

Purple owl’s clover in a field in Kern County, Calif. “It’s a complicated legacy,” she said, pausing near a patch of purple owl’s clover, a native wildflower.

The sea of tall, purple wildflowers known as blazing stars at Jennings Environmental Education Center are a rarity for Western Pennsylvania, and they won’t last much longer than this weekend.