See California in bloom this spring by visiting this nature reserve where colorful wildflowers blanket the hills and line ...

Locals call the Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve “UC Merced’s backyard,” and it’s a backyard unlike any other.

Spring has sprung and it is the subject for the latest Readers Photo Challenge. After being cooped up indoors during the cold ...

Merced’s Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve has over 6,000 vernal pools. It is now used as a place for preservation, ...

There’s a plant with an unusual name that rises out of the ground only after a fire. It's called the poodle-dog bush, and it ...

Learn about common flowers and plants that may be beautiful but pose a threat to you, your child or even your pet.

It’s springtime, and orange poppies, purple lupine and red paintbrush flowers color the hillsides at Juristac, a pristine hillside landscape in northern San Benito County and Southern Santa Clara ...

Here are our favorite places to frolic through fields of flowers, from the Pacific Northwest to the Appalachian Mountains ... San Luis Obispo County, California. There’s never a bad season ...

Hayden, a musician and music agent, loves hiking high in the San Gabriel Mountains — "No ... plants in their garden are ...

Poodle-dog bush thrives in Southern California mountains after wildfires. It's pretty but petting it can result in a severe ...

This comes as the insects are rapidly declining and are under consideration for Endangered Species Act protections.

In the first two weeks of spring in L.A., our mountains have turned greener and flowers are blooming. These hikes will give ...