Botany - California plant communities

Searches will retrieve entries in the Index to California Plant Names, which include hyperlinks to Jepson Manual, the specimen databases, CalPhotos, and other sources of information about the California flora. For your project follow, in particular, links to bioregional maps, county distribution, type specimen data and CalPhotos.

All 4 volumes available online. Find your family in the table of content then scroll to the page. Switch between volumes using the drop-down box beside the title.
More about Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) in the "General sources (..)" section below.

Information on wild California plants including observations recorded by organizations and volunteering individuals. The distribution information might be specially relevant to your project. Follow the "USDA plant profile" link (toward the end of the record), if present.

Note the information related to conservancy.

This report focuses on forest vegetation. The subregions descriptions are very brief but "Description of Vegetation Cover Types", starting on p. 57 (67), provides ample information.

Note the link to the online version of Manual of California Vegetation.

Follow the links to "Climate of California " (Climate Narratives of the State) and Western U.S. Historical Summaries (individual stations). If the latter, select "Climatological Data Summaries" to find out average temperatures and precipitaton.

Over the next 10 years, the Encyclopedia of Life will create Internet pages for all 1.8 million species currently named. The pages will provide written information and, when available, photographs, video, sound, location maps, and other multimedia information on each species.

Explore - at least online - the Kew Gardens and its living plant collection, the largest and most comprehensive in the world, containing representatives of more than one in eight of all flowering plant species. Do not overlook "Scientific Research and Data" link!

PLoS Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed general biology journal published by the PLoS, a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.

Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.

In progress.

Over 137,000 images of plants from University of California at Berkeley.

Harvard University Herbaria includes vascular plants, mosses, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, and algae.