Mastodawn

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/flowers-heated-2c-meadow-climate-crisis-experiment-rocky-mountains-aoe. "At the time [1991], it was believed a #temperature increase could lead to longer, lusher #grasses. But instead of flourishing, the grasses & #wildflowers started to disappear, replaced by #sagebrush. The experimental #meadows morphed into a desert-like #scrubland. Even the #fungi in the #soils were transformed by #heat."

‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems

The Guardian

Eric Bono 10h ago

Checkered White Butterfly, California Buckwheat

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/345225695

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MigsGarden 13h ago

Sending you warm California sunshine and wildflowers. Enjoy!

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MigsGarden 13h ago

Wildflower moment . . .

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MigsGarden 13h ago

So delightful and wonderful in its wildness . . .

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MigsGarden 13h ago

A sunny wildflower garden . . .

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MigsGarden 14h ago

It's Springtime in California!

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MigsGarden 14h ago

Wildflower beauty . . .

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George Steffanos 15h ago

Sheep laurel and lily pads in the sunshine, Herron Pond, White Memorial Foundation, Morris, Connecticut. June 4, 2025, 3:58 PM.

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Akkana Peck 16h ago

It was hot in Guaje Canyon today! But we did see plenty of pasqueflowers. I don't know how they manage to bloom in a year when they got almost no rain, but they managed.

#bloomscrolling #hiking #NewMexico #wildflowers