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Unusual bounty in Death Valley Desert primroses come early this year
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Finn-Olaf Jones
International Herald Tribune
03-08-2005
Crossing over the Jubilee Pass on Route 178, drivers may expect to encounter the monochromatic wasteland of Death Valley National Park unfurling before them. But these days they see something very different: varicolored plains of primroses, larkspurs, poppies, verbenas, lilacs, orchids, phacelias and other wildflowers.It raises the question of whether Death Valley even deserves its name.The same rains that have brought mudslides and destruction in one of California's wettest seasons on record have also brought an early and spectacularly ...
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