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.

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 ...

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.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: She’s Out to Save Rare Wildflowers, But First She Has to Find Them.