Rains make summer poppies pop up
Summer poppies are misnamed - they're not really in the poppy family but in the same family as the familiar creosote bush. They tend to appear in clumps rather than in vast foral carpets. The ones pictured were found along Gates Pass Road.
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Catch a glimpse of a big clump of dazzling summer poppies in the desert and you might think …
