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California Poppy
This is the California State Flower. They grow wild all over the state. Native Americans valued the poppy as a food source and for the oil extracted from the plant. Here we were at the Mission Trails Regional Park near Santee and Hwy 52. It has beautiful trails, a Visitor Center and a Climbers Loop which looks pretty steep.