The monkey flowers are in bloom. That would be the Carson Valley Flowers. And that's a big deal because while they've hitsorically bloomed from Red Rock north of Reno to Mottsville, they haven't been seen in six years. "Our conditions have just been right this year," said Janel Johnson who is the President of the Nevada Native Plant Society and is also a state botanist. "Our wet winter and our hot and cold swings in temperature have been what they like....
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For the first time in six years the Carson Valley Monkey Flower is blooming. It's a flower native only to the Carson Valley and it looks very much like a tiny yellow snap dragon.