While everybody is looking for the California poppies, here in the desert they are rare. This is not their habitat. However, there is an indigenous cousin popping up amid the desert's rocky ridges ...

Poppies across Southern California aren't popping, even as other bright flowers blanket the region. Here's why — and how you can marvel at a different wildflower this year.

Poppies are currently blooming on the east side of the preserve, located in the Mojave Desert near the city of Lancaster. You might also see the orange flowers along Pearblossom Highway, which ...

As the barren California desert sprang to life, they descended. With their selfie sticks, their smartphones and their gee-whiz-look-at-all-the-flowers smiles, they seemed blissfully unconcerned ...

Not quite desert roses, two new species of desert poppies from North America amaze with their simple beauty. The newly described plants are found in the deserts of California and Arizona and have ...

While people may have seen some blooming poppy plants this year, they were few and far between compared to recent years. In basic terms, Freyermuth said there was not enough precipitation in the ...

The California poppy, or golden poppy, a flowering plant native to the United States and Mexico, became the official state flower in 1903. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images ...