Wildflowers

of the

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

Links

Updated 6-28-08. We have just completed a major update to structure of this web site. The links to the thumbnail pages have been removed and in their place is a new Flower Finder. The "Compact Version" is for users who do not need the notes to help them make selections. The table of links now has three columns in it: a column of scientific names, a column of common names, and a new colum of scientific names sorted by families. General Notes: This site was designed to work best with a monitor resolution of 800x600 or higher. If you have difficulty reading the text you can try changing the text size displayed in your browser by going to its menu and clicking "View" and then "Text Size." Access to the plants available on this site is by way of a large table of links or through the Flower Finder. The table of links is organized as a set of three lists sorted alphabetical by either scientific name, common name or family. If your browser supports tool tips you can use your mouse to "hover" over an entry in the table to cross-reference the names. All of the species on this site are available in this table, including the grasses and the ferns. These links lead to a web page featuring details of the plant listed. It is also possible to access the grasses or the ferns through their own separate table of links. Each web page featuring a flower includes the scientific name, the family name, and at least one common name. In addition, we provide the approximate location, habitat, and date for the plant that was photographed. If more than one common name is given we will capitalize the one which we have cross-referenced to the scientific name. In the case of the scientific names we will try to use the one listed in the Jepson Manual, but in some cases may use a more currently accepted name. An asterisk (*) denotes an established non-native. The thumbnail pages generated by the searches available through the Flower Finder may have many pictures on them (in some cases several hundred pictures.) These large web pages can take several minutes to load over a slow internet connection. Depending on the settings of your web browser, this can lead to a "time-out" situation where some pictures may fail to load. In that case you can try refreshing the page, or alternatively, right click a missing picture and choosing 'Show Picture'. The arrangement of the thumbnails is alphabetically by families and then by scientific name. The "Compact Version" of the Flower Finder is for users who do not need the notes to help them make selections. A final note about the Flower Finder is that it requires JavaScript to operate. If it is disabled in your web browser then noting will happen when you click the "Submit Search" button (it is unlikely that this will be a problem since almost all web browsers have this enabled by default.) When photographing the thumbnail pictures the camera was frequently positioned as close to the flower as possible, occasionally resulting in a greatly enlarged view of the flower. In plants with a large inflorescence we usually tried to focus on a single flower while still retaining enough of the inflorescence to indicate that it exists. Clicking on a thumbnail picture will open the page specific to that flower with at least one additional higher-resolution picture. All pictures and photomicrographs containing a measurement grid employ a 1mm scale unless otherwise noted. If you have comments or questions please contact e-mail: Tony_Valois@partner.nps.gov phone: 310-457-6408 [ NPS Home ] [ Santa Monica Mountains NRA Home ] [ What's Blooming ]