Lobos Creek Dunes and Valley  Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs

Plant Links

California Academy of Sciences Native Wildflower identification page:  

Native wildflowers can be identified by common or scientific names or can be found by colors.

 

California Native Plant Society's Links

This is a mammoth list of connections to botanically related sites.

 

Garden Gate: Roots of Botanical Names

Find out what the descriptive part of a plant's scientific name means.  For instance, the "millefolium" part of Achillea millefolium (yarrow) breaks down into "mille" (thousand or many) and "folium" (leaves). Compiled by Bob Riffle.

 

Mykoweb

If you're curious about mushrooms, this is the place to start. There's a special link to San Francisco Bay Area fungi on the site.

 

Regional Parks Botanic Garden

Tilden Park in Berkeley, CA has a botanic garden.  This site has a list of what flowers are in bloom during each season with some links to photographs.

 

Santa Clara Valley Chapter, California Native Plant Society

This is a link to their photo gallery.  There are beautiful close-ups of many flowers.

 

Strybing Arboretum

The Arboretum covers 55 acres in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It specializes in plants from Mediterranean climates. A tiny bookstore near the entrance to Strybing has a wide-ranging selection which outshines most bookstores' small gardening sections. You can see California native plants in the Arthur L. Menzies Garden. The Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at Strybing is devoted to books on flora from around the world. Since you can't check books out, they're always there! The walls are covered with a botanical art gallery /exhibit that changes every few months.

 

U.C. Berkeley Digital Library Project

The large collection of wildflower photographs taken by Brother Alfred Brousseau were the first items to be digitized for this site.  It has evolved into a huge wildflower photo resource with other contributors and links.

 

California Native Plant Society - Yerba Buena Chapter

This is the homepage of the San Francisco & Northern San Mateo County chapters. Some of Michael Wood's "Focus on Rarities" columns from the chapters monthly bulletin, Yerba Buena News are on the site. Regular and special plant restoration projects going on in the San Francisco Bay Area are listed.  

Science Links

Geologist's Lifetime Field List

This is a wonderful list of geologically interesting or noteworthy places to see and phenomena to experience.

 

SciTech Daily Review

A collection of brief notes and links to interesting articles from a variety of sources.

 

Scott's Botanical Links

Scott Richards found botanical websites, reviewed them and then posted links to the best over the course of a few years.

Hard-to-Define Link

Flying Pig

A collection of amazing contraptions made of cardboard - truly strange and wonderful. There are little animated examples of them on the lower half of the pages. I'm not brave enough to attempt one yet, but my younger brother may give it a try.