Resources

WHAT'S IN BLOOM?

•  You can call the Theodore Payne Foundation Wildflower Hotline at 818-768-3533 or  http://www.theodorepayne.org/hotline.html
• Desert Wildflower Watch http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca.html

•  For what is in bloom at Tilden Park Botanical Garden

•  If you are looking for mushrooms

NATIVE PLANTS

•  CNPS State Office

•  CalFlora Database. This database contains geographic and ecological distribution information for California vascular plant taxa, as well as additional habitat information for rare taxa and species of the Sierra Nevada. It was compiled from two major sources, an electronic transcription of distribution and lifeform data from A California Flora and Supplement (Munz 1959 and 1968) and the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Vascular Plants of California (Skinner and Pavlick 1994, electronic version).

•  Cal Academy California Wildflowers and photos

•  Almaden Wildflowers. We have put together a collection of some of the flowers to look out for. You can begin by picking a color, then chose from the list of flowers on the individual color pages. Clicking on the thumbnail of a given flower will link you to a page about that flower. Alternatively, you can go to the list of Almaden wildflowers....

•  Dept. of Fish & Game Natural Heritage Division. The mission NHD is to identify and conserve California's sensitive plants, animals, and natural communities for their intrinsic worth and their value to present and future generations.

•  Wild-Flowers.com. You are invited to participate in the continued development of Wild-Flowers. The two goals are: 1) to learn more about wild-flowers and 2) how to better organize and communicate information on the World Wide Web.

•  California Wildflowers (Berkeley Digital Library Project). This collection that will eventually contain 20,000 35mm photographs of California wildflowers.

•  Native Plants of Montara Mountain

•  Native Habitats (Georgia Stigall)

•  Email discussion group for California native plants: This listserv is not sponsored by CNPS, but according to Greg McCann, its operator, the purpose of the list is for participants to share their experience, their knowledge, and their questions about California native plants with each other. Topics include gardening with natives, plant identification, propagation techniques, habitat restoration, legal and political action, invasive nonnatives, and event announcements. Anyone wishing to subscribe to the list can send an email message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the words "subscribe ca-natives Your_First_Name Your_Last_Name" in the body of the message. The address that you send the message from will be automatically added to the list. To leave the list send email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the words "signoff ca-natives" in the body of the message.

•  Native Plants Journal: The Practical Journal for Growing and Planting North American Endemics for Conservation, Landscaping, Reforestation, and Restoration. Subscription required.

NATIVE PLANT PHOTOGRAPHS

Other wildflower photographs: Chapter Photo Gallery | CNPS Vegetation Program Photo Project | CNPS Plant Photograph Program | CNPS State Photo Gallery | CNPS SCV Photo Group for members | Join the CNPS SCV Photo Group | Calphotos | Jepson Online Interchangs for California Floristics | Some personal photo web sites: Carol Mattsson | Patrick Gallagher http://www.greenisles.com/Shows/Alaska%20Nature%202005/ | http://www.greenisles.com/Shows/Russian%20Ridge%202005/ | Karl Gohl particularly “Some Favorites" and "Earlier Edgewood Pix” | Michael Soo's photos from the 2004 Spring Wildflower Show.

NATIVE PLANTS/EXOTICS

•  California Invasive Plant Council

•  California Cooperative Weed Management Area: San Mateo County | Santa Clara County

RESOURCES/ENVIRONMENT

•  California Native Grasslands Association (http://www.cnga.org/index.php)

•  Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregional Council (http://www.scmbc.net) SCMBC is a biodiversity planning and conservation group for the Santa Cruz Mountains bioregion.

•  Welcome to CERES.The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System. CERES is an information system developed by the Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse resources....

•  The Natural Resources Database is an inventory of plant and animal resources on open space and natural preserves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The database was designed and implemented by Dennis H. Smith, who also entered and maintains the data. Bill Korbholz adapted the database for Internet use and designed and implemented the web interface.

•  San Francisco Bay Area EcoAtlas. Produced by the San Francisco Estuary Institute, this site has great maps of historic or potential vegetation around the bay, an extensive article on introduced plants in the baylands, and also a 1990s survey of fish in most of the streams that drain to the San Francisco Bay.

•  EcoNet serves organizations and individuals working for environmental preservation and sustainability. 
• Common Ground Environmental Videos

BOTANY

•  Internet Directory for Botany

•  GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms

•  Carl Sharsmith Herbarium, San Jose State University.

•  California Academy of Sciences Botany

HORTICULTURE

•  Gardening With Natives (http://www.gardeningwithnatives.com/). Chapter special interest group. 
• Going Native Garden Tour (http://www.goingnativegardentour.org/)
•  California Native Plant Link Exchange (http://www.cnplx.info/). Find sources of plants or seeds, wholesale or retail, for many, many California native plants.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

 Virtual Library of Landscape Architecture with many categories and links. Some are to California universities with landscape architecture programs like Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

The sites on this page have been recommended by chapter members. Many additional sites are available at CNPS State