the Flora of California
Over 30,000 photos
of California flowers, trees, and other plants in a searchable
database managed by the UC Berkeley Digital Library Research Project.
Native Plant Society
California Native Grass Association
brings together conservationists, resource managers, horticulturalists,
scientists, consultants and others to promote native grasses and
associated species for restoration and maintenance of California's
grassland ecosystems and for use in urban and agricultural areas.
California Exotic Pest Plant
Invasive and damaging weed plants in California.
California Native Plant Link Exchange (CNPLX)
allows a user to find which nurseries sell a
particular California native plant species.
California Plant Names, Word Meanings and Name Derivations
Word meanings and name derivations of Southern California plants
compiled by Michael Lloyd Charters
quarterly publication of the California Interagency Noxious
Weed Coordinating Committee. Includes information on biological
control, new weeds, and current efforts at weed control.
Fungi of California
Species list with descriptions, photos, bibliography
Rare or Uncommon Plants of Northwest California
Primarily Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. Sponsored by the
North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Educational programs including classes, workshops, field trips,
and tours, including evening and weekend events and special activities
Herbarium California State University, San Jose
of specimens contained in the Sharsmith Herbarium.
Society for Ecological Restoration
(SER) California Chapter
An international professional membership organization for people
researching, practicing, or interested in Ecological Restoration.
A community forestry resource sponsored by The National Urban
and Community Forestry Advisory Council,The USDA Forest Service
and Information Center
University of California, Davis
California Native Plant Email Discussion Group
Weed Management for the benefit of agriculture and for the preservation
of natural resources.
An email discussion group where members share their experience,
their knowledge, and their questions about California native plants
with each other.
Other Online Sources
Societies of the United States
Maintained by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
National Wildlife Federation Backyard
Wildlife Habitat program
interactive web site with suggestions on improving the habitat
value of backyards.
and Agencies for Ecological Restoration, California.
List of many organizations maintained by NativeHabitats.org
Nursery Sources for California Native Plants (1995)
List of California Native Plants and the nurseries that carry
them by M.A. Sowers and K. Wiese. $10.00 - Publication DMG- OFR
90-02 of the California Department of Conservation, Division
of Mines and Geology.
American Association of Botanical
Gardens and Arboreta
With searchable database of member gardens in California.
Centres of Plant Diversity: A Guide and Strategy for Their Conservation-Volume
3: The Americas
Contains accounts of 75 major sites for conservation of plant
diversity in the Americas. It highlights areas of pristine botanical
importance, with the hope that these will receive adequate levels
of resources to ensure their protection. Published by the World
Wildlife Fund and The World Conservation Union (IUCN) in coordination
with the Smithsonian Institution.
A&M Bioinformatics Working Group
Texas flora, Carex illustrations.
of Taxonomic Literature
database of references relevant to the taxonomy of flowering
plants, gymnosperms and ferns.
designed to answer questions about useful & poisonous plants,
and to act as a resource for the wider ethnobotanical community,
Research Service: Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Displays a list of the ethnobotanical uses for plants.
Index to American
Includes botanical literature on systematics and floristics,
morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general
botany appearing since late 1995.
The Families of Flowering Plants
descriptions, taxonomic information, references, and line illustrations
of all the Angiosperm families
University of Michigan
Includes specimen database retrieval, gis mapping, and other
Devoted to the science of mycology (the study of the fungi)
and the hobby of mushrooming (the pursuit of mushrooms).
Service Research Natural Areas (RNAs)
Detailed descriptive information (with photographs) for 263
established and 55 proposed RNAs in (Idaho, Montana, North & South
Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and
New Mexico) is easily accessed through interactive maps and tables.
Species" Audio recording of NPR Public
Interest News Show.
Botanists and researchers are always excited when they discover
previously unknown plant species, and in the last twenty-five
years, more than one thousand new species have been found in the
U-S. Kojo and guests discuss the significance of these findings,
and how ordinary Americans may make extraordinary discoveries
in their own backyard gardens.
Parasitic Plant Connection Southern Illinois University
Note: a free copy of RealAudio
is required to listen.
- Barbara Ertter, Curator of Western North America Flora at
University of California at Berkeley
- Dr. Bruce Stein, Director of Scientific Publications at
the Nature Conservancy
- Vicky Funk, Research Botanist at the Smithsonian Institution
Database and pictures of parasitic plants world-wide
University of Michigan
Searchable database of fungi, bryophytes, lichen; western distribution
maps for fungi
PLANTS National Database
Searchable database of North American plants
of Botanical Interest
(maintained at Helsinki University)