Welcome to Cwildflowers.com! This site is dedicated to helping you find the best wildflower viewing in the U.S. This is the California page. Enjoy!
Want to learn about the Fairs and Festivals in CA? Visit Californiafairsandfestivals.com
Wildflowers in Bloom in California
Where In California are they in bloom now? The best source is Carol Leigh's California Wildflower Hotsheet. This excellent resource is updated frequently and contains species identification and locations-- http://www.calphoto.com/wflower.htm
Viewing areas of CA in the US Forest Service Domain
For a report on wildflowers in the deserts visit-- http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca.html and to view native plants of the desert visit-- http://www.desertusa.com/flora.html
The Wildflower Hotline reports on flower activity from March through May-- http://www.theodorepayne.org/hotline.htm
Nature Alley by Nature Ali reports on wildflowers found in the Central Valley of CA, but had no update activity for 2009-- http://www.natureali.org/wildflowers.htm
Total Escape lists towns with wildflowers viewing nearby and hikes that highlight wildflowers-- http://www.totalescape.com/active/leisure/wildflwr.html
US Dept. of Interior BLM website lists areas of California that are controlled by the BLM and contain wildflowers-- http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/recreation/wildflowers.html
More links to California Wildflowers
Wildflowers West.org will help you ID flowers
From IBM's Almaden Research Center-- Almaden Wildflowers
Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
500 California Wildflowers (book and CD for sale)
Wildflowers found in northwestern California
Google Map coming soon
General Wildflower Information
Wildflower Information from the California Academy of Science: This site contains excellent material on the classification and identification of wildflowers in California-- http://research.calacademy.org/research/botany/wildflow/
Wildflowers in Bloom: This page was created by the Horticulture Program of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service and is a photo album of wildflowers found throughout the US listed by common names-- http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/wildflowers.html
Wildflower Information.org has information on flowers in color, type, region, or habitat and will help you identify those rare sightings-- http://www.wildflowerinformation.org/
Wildflower Identification using a interactive key (a geeks delight)-- http://www.realtimerendering.com/flowers/flowers.html
More wildflower interactive identification-- Discover Life
Another interactive key on a great website My Wildflowers.com -- http://www.mywildflowers.com/ features wildflowers from western Pennsylvania
Wildflowers history-- http://www.wildflowerinformation.org/
Wildflower news links from Google--http://news.google.com/news?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=wildflowers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=7GlrSsWTDoOusgO678CWBQ&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct=title&resnum=15
The USDA Plant data base contains a plethora of useful information-- http://plants.usda.gov/
Search the database of Hortiplex by common or scientific name-- http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/
Wildflower Photos
Kier's Botanical Photo Archive
Thomas Kornack's Wildflower Photography
Wildflowers and Other Plants of Southern CA
Flickr has pages of photo groups dedicated to wildflowers worldwide
Photo Tips for wildflowers
Wildflower Photograpy Tips from Wildthingsphoto.com
Free eBook from Photonaturalist.net
