Wildflower Links

The following are links to other Internet websites related to Celebrating Wildflowers. These links include websites of our partners in the Forest Service, other agencies, and organizations.

These organizations promote preservation, conservation, and knowledge about native plants. Most include a wide array of activities and information including field trips, wildflower walks, presentations, seed exchanges, native plant gardening, restoration information, photo galleries, botanical references, newsletters, plant lists, invasive plant information, and educational classes.

Other Botanical Resources 
Conservation Organizations

Other Botanical Resources

• American Orchid Society
  A colorful site with excellent information on an array of topics including orchid species, growing orchids, the orchid Doctor, orchid propagation, classes, exhibits and orchid conservation.
• American Public Gardens Association
  American Public Gardens Association serves public gardens and advances them as leaders, advocates, and innovators in the conservation and appreciation of plants.
• BEN (Botanical Electronic News)
  Interesting and colorful botanical news, updated monthly, this site includes the archives of all issues.
• Colorado Wildflowers
  A comprehensive photo collection of wildflowers found in Colorado.
• Death Valley Wildflowers
  Information about wildflower viewing in Death Valley National Park and links to desert wildflower photos.
• East Tennessee Wildflowers and Hiking Trails
  East Tennessee is blessed with a bounty of beautiful wildflowers. The show starts in early March and continues through early November. These flowers can be enjoyed while hiking through the woods, walking in a park, and even when traveling along the back roads and interstate highways. The site includes tips for wildflower identification, wildflower galleries from other states and countries, a wildflower name index, teacher resources, information about hiking, and a wide array of natural history topics.
• Flora of North America
  Flora of North America presents for the first time, in one published reference source, information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico. The Flora will appear in 30 volumes and will be available in print and on the Web. This valuable site includes on-line volumes of the flora, botanical educational material and the Flora of North America Newsletter.
• Herb Society of America
  An organization that focuses on educating its members and the public on the cultivation of herbs and the study of their history and uses, both past and present.
• ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System
  A source of authoritative taxonomic information on plants as well as animals, fungi and microbes.
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
  An in depth database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Searchable by plant name, author and publications.
• Michigan Wildflowers
  A catalog of digital photographs to help identify wildflowers found in Michigan including common and Latin names.
• NatureServe
  NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization that provides scientific information and tools to help guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are a source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.
• Ohio Division of Natural Areas & Preserves: Nature Preserves Newsletters
  What better time than spring to contemplate the beauty of nature in Ohio’s woods? From late March until May, the glory of spring can be found along many of Ohio’s wooded trails. Newsletters from the Division of Natural Areas & Preserves offers great information for the Ohio resident or traveler.
• Online Virtual Flora of Wisconsin
  A collaborative effort between the herbaria of the UW-Madison (WIS) and the UW-Steven's Point (UWSP), along with most of the other herbaria located in the state of Wisconsin.
• OregonFlora
  OregonFlora has assembled a comprehensive guide to the ~4,700 vascular plants of Oregon that is shared through this website, the Flora of Oregon books, and their wildflower identification app. Their mission - to increase awareness and knowledge of the plants of Oregon through publication of technically sound, accessible information for diverse audiences.
• Project Budburst
  Project BudBurst participants make careful observations of the timing of leafing, flowering, and fruiting phases of plants (plant phenophases) throughout the year. Scientists and educators can use the data to learn more about how plant species respond to changes in climate locally, regionally, and nationally.
• Smithsonian Department of Botany
  This site includes botanical art and images, references, botanical events and activities, information about research and collections.
• Tropical Plant Database
  A web site packed with information about these fascinating plants, including identification guides and glossaries, along with facts and activities for kids.
• USDA PLANTS Database
  This very usable database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. Wide arrays of searches are available, including scientific name, common name, and state searches. The image gallery includes 30,000 images, downloads include checklists and posters.
• Utah Wildflowers
  Stop and smell the roses, so the saying goes. That may work in the English countryside, but here in the Beehive State, it’s Utah wildflowers that deserve notice. Scene stealers — lupine, sego lilies, mountain sunflowers, columbine and paintbrush — share the stage with fragrant forests and gurgling creeks in the north, and desert breezes and red rock canyons to the south. Altogether, finding wildflowers is a rewarding, multi-sensory performance worth the hike.
• Variegated
  Variegated Plants & Their Biographies: Definition, The Science & Examples. Covering the biographies of variegated plants & more!
• Wildflowers, Ferns, and Trees of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, & Utah
  A web site for the identification and appreciation of mountain and desert wildflowers, ferns, and trees of the Four Corners area of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.

Conservation Organizations

• The Bee Conservancy
  The Honeybee Conservancy is a 501c3 non-profit organization that works to help the bees, while increasing access to organic, sustainable food in under-served communities.
• Center for Biological Diversity
  Programs, campaigns, resources, events, and information for "Protecting endangered species and wild places."
• Center for Plant Conservation
  The mission of the Center for Plant Conservation is to conserve and restore the rare native plants of the United States.
• The Hummingbird Society
  The Mission of the Hummingbird Society is to promote the understanding and conservation of hummingbirds.
• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
  Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation.
• Native Plant Society of the United States
  The Native Plant Society of the United States (formerly the Native Plant Conservation Campaign) is a network of Affiliate native plant societies and other conservation organizations throughout the United States.
• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC)
  NAPPC's mission is to encourage the health of resident and migratory pollinating animals in North America.
• Plant Conservation Alliance Non-Federal Cooperator Committee
  A public-private partnership of organizations that share the same goal: to protect native plants by ensuring that native plant populations and their communities are maintained, enhanced, and restored.
• Rare Plant Care & Conservation
  The Washington Rare Plant Care & Conservation Program (Rare Care) at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture establishes the first plant conservation program focused exclusively on vascular plants designated as rare in Washington State.
• The Pollinator Partnership
  Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research.
• Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes
  Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.
• The Xerces Society
  An international nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting biological diversity through invertebrate conservation.