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Wild Flowers
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: Desert Wildflower Blooms 
 Background and seasonal updates about wildflowers in the Sonoran Desert region encompassing parts of Arizona, California, and Sonora and Baja California, Mexico. Features wildflower reports, an article about predicting wildflower blooms, general information about spring and summer flowering seasons in the desert, and the photo presentation "Wildflower Flourishes and Flops -- a 50-year History." From the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. http://www.desertmuseum.org/programs/flw_blooming.html Topics: Geography, Geology, Plants Last updated Mar 11, 2008 Bureau of Land Management: California Wildflowers
Background about the wildflower season in California, which "generally starts with an early spring in the desert regions of southern California, and works its way northward. When the wildflower seasons occur, and how lush they are, depends on the weather and can vary widely from year to year." Includes details about wildflower viewing regions such as the Mojave Desert, eastern Sierra, and San Joaquin Valley. From the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/recreation/wildflowers.html Topics: Plants Last updated Mar 11, 2008 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 Corpse Flower: "Tabatha"
Information about Tabatha the Titan, a 5-foot tall specimen of the corpse flower (also known as titan arum) that bloomed in August 2004 at the University of California, Davis. On blooming, the plant produces an odor "as terrible as a corpse." The site features a time-lapse video of Tabatha's bloom, video reports, journals, temperature readings, a FAQ, and other materials on the flower. From the University of California, Davis. http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/special_reports/titan/ Topics: Plants Last updated Feb 12, 2006 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 Project Budburst
"Join thousands of others in gathering valuable environmental and climate change information from across the country. Project BudBurst engages the public in making careful observations of the phenophases such as first leafing, first flower, and first fruit ripening of a diversity of ... [plants] in their local area." Learn how to join, review illustrated field guides (on wildflowers, grasses, trees, and more), and see data. From the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/ Topics: Plants Last updated Apr 23, 2009 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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