Research, Plant Names, Photos, Identification

Links to the resources we actually use when we’re getting information on plants… botanists do like to keep us all busy as they are in a continual process of updating current plant names!

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1   Link   Jepson Project - General
The online component of the Jepson Flora Project, provides users with a single interface from which they can find the most comprehensive, scientifically accurate sources of information on the California flora.
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2   Link   Jepson Online Interchange
The most up-to-date plant names, as they progress.
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3   Link   US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Plants Database
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
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4   Link   CalPhotos - Plants
CalPhotos has been on the web since 1995 and was one of the first online image databases specializing in natural history subjects. The database currently contains 218,330 digital images of plants, animals, and other natural history subjects, along with descriptive information including scientific and common names, location and dates of photos, and other information provided by the person or organization that contributed the photos.
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5   Link   Cal Flora
Information on wild California plants for conservation, education, and appreciation
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