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Maps Show Just How Early Spring is This Year

These colorful phenology maps graphically depict California's early-blooming flowers.

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California has seen a warm winter this year–and these maps show exactly how early spring has sprung, based on the first blooms of several plant species. Check them out to see just when and where the growing season has begun here (and across the United States).

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