{"id":11844,"date":"2013-04-20T20:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T03:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11844"},"modified":"2013-04-20T20:53:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T03:53:48","slug":"free-guided-hikes-to-see-rare-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/free-guided-hikes-to-see-rare-wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Guided Hikes To See Rare Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bbendem2.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flower identification bottom left, clockwise:\u00a0Eriogonum ovalifolium, Astragalus albens, Calochortus striatus,Arabus parishii, Phlox dolicantha, Calochortus striatus, Erigeron parishii, Sidalcea pedata<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/big-bear-lake.html\">BIG BEAR LAKE, CALIF<\/a>. &#8212; Blossoms not found anywhere else on Earth can be seen on Spring tours at Baldwin Lake Ecological Reserve in Southern California&#8217;s San Bernardino mountains. Take a self-guided tour or go with a botanist and volunteers of the Southern California Mountains Foundation on free interpretive hikes that depart at 11:30 a.m. each Saturday through June 29, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Once a glacier lake \u00a0(Pleistocene era 10,000 years ago,) \u00a0a combination of unique soils, thousands of years of the swelling and shrinking<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/flowers-gardens\/big-bear-wildflowers.html\">&#8230;read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower identification bottom left, clockwise:\u00a0Eriogonum ovalifolium, Astragalus albens, Calochortus striatus,Arabus parishii, Phlox dolicantha, Calochortus striatus, Erigeron parishii, Sidalcea pedata BIG BEAR LAKE, CALIF. &#8212; Blossoms not found anywhere else on Earth can be seen on Spring tours at Baldwin Lake Ecological Reserve in Southern California&#8217;s San Bernardino mountains. Take a self-guided tour or go with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}