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Wild Flowers
 Websites presented in alphabetical order California Wildflowers 
 Photographs, a description, and distribution information for every California wildflower. Users can browse by color, common name, Latin name, or family name. A California map of floristic regions is also included. From the California Academy of Sciences. http://research.calacademy.org/research/botany/wildflow/ Topics: Gardening, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Plants Last updated Apr 18, 2008 Celebrating Wildflowers Coloring Books
Offers coloring pages featuring plants and wild flowers from the northwestern United States and the Texas hill country. Drawings are indexed by scientific name and common name. Also includes an online gallery where children exhibit their work, information about the illustrators, a list of botanical coloring books, wildflower resources for teachers, and information about scientific names, common names, and noxious weeds. From the Plant Conservation Alliance. http://www.nps.gov/plants/color/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Gardening, Literature & Books, Plants, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 8, 2005 Gardener's Guide to Global Warming
Collection of materials relating to garden plants and potential global warming impacts. Click on the map to find out "if your official State Trees or State Flowers may be affected," view an interactive USDA hardiness zone map for 1990-2006, see a list of not-wanted invasive plants, and take a gardener's pledge to help fight global warming. Includes links to related material, such as a 2007 report of the same name. From the National Wildlife Federation. http://www.nwf.org/gardenersguide/ Topics: Environment, Gardening Last updated Mar 19, 2009 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
The goal of the center, formerly the National Wildflower Research Center, is to educate people about "the environmental necessity, economic value, and natural beauty of native plants." The site provides information about the center, information about native plant events by region or state, including internships and conferences throughout the nation, and links to native plant organizations, gardens with displays with regionally native plants, and other useful native plant links. There is also a searchable (by keyword or state) native plant database. http://www.wildflower.org/ Topics: Education, Gardening, Plants Last updated Jul 3, 2001 Photos: Columbia Basin Wildflowers
Color photos of over 20 wildflowers of the Columbia Basin shrub-steppe region of Washington state. Each photo includes the common and Latin name, as well as descriptive text. Also includes photos of native plant restoration work. http://wnps.org/cbasin/photo.html Topics: Gardening, Geography, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Plants, Water Last updated Feb 23, 2004 Wildflower Information.org
This site is "a resource for wildflower enthusiasts and gardeners." It features a history of wildflowers, material about common and botanical wildflowers names, and a wildflower information database, which is sortable by bloom color, height, soil preference, moisture needs, and other factors. Flower entries include images. "Authors, photographers, naturalists and many gardeners have contributed to the information and images." http://www.wildflowerinformation.org Topics: Gardening, Plants Last updated Jun 13, 2007 Wildflowers of Southern California: A Photographic Gallery
Contains "photographs of wildflowers of the southern California chaparral, desert, mountains, and north coast indexed according to scientific, common, or family names." Includes "What's that plant?" a guide "for determining the names of some common plants" found in these areas. Maintained by a professor of biology at California Lutheran University. http://www.callutheran.edu/Academic_Programs/Departments/Biology/Wildflowers/ Topics: Gardening, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Plants Last updated Mar 25, 2006 |
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