Yreka's own native endemic phlox, Phlox hirsuta, was found blooming about a month early this year at China Hill, on the northeast side of town.
Other plants flowering on this sunny day before Easter included (from top) poppies and blue gilia, silver rock cress, blue dicks and lomatium.
Showy phlox, Phlox speciosa, also makes a home on China Hill's lean serpentine soils. Note the notched petals on this one, compared to the Yreka phlox.
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