Contribute to science: become a citizen scientist! The iNaturalist app, created by the CA Academy of Sciences, enables you to record observations out in the field, upload them into a worldwide database and share with fellow naturalists. If you don’t know what it is,...
Found a mushroom, flower, or bug, and not sure what it is? Open up the Seek camera to see if it knows. It will show you lists of commonly recorded insects, birds, plants, amphibians, and more in your area. Based on the extensive database of observations submitted...
Regional Parks Botanic Garden at Tilden Park in Berkeley, CA. Established in 1940, the garden’s primary role is to create beautiful landscapes displaying California’s diverse plant life. Its mission embraces not only aesthetics, but also native plant conservation,...
CNPLX uses the CalFlora database but presents the information in a different way from CalFlora. Native plants can be searched by county (rather than by specific address) and by several other criteria such as type (tree, annual, etc.) and family. For each plant that...
CALFLORA, with its own native plant database, has a Plant Finder feature that, like CalScape, shows the native plants that grow naturally in the vicinity of a particular location. For horticultural information, CalFlora links to CalScape, and for plant nursery...
