Spring is usually peak poppy season for Southern California, but limited winter showers dampened the flower species’ chances.

Scan the rolling hills of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve and you’ll ... some of its usual haunts — including the reserve in Lancaster and the city of Lake Elsinore.

Visitors have converged on Lancaster, California, to see the first such superbloom in four years. But to the dismay of officials, the poppies have not blossomed in the state park poppy reserve.

Well "instantly expanding" should come with an asterisk: March 1 isn't about carpets of poppies suddenly appearing at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, but it is the day, each and ...

California State Parks around Southern California have not experienced the delicate mix of weather factors needed for ...