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About Calflora

Species Information

Observation Library

Plant Name Library

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mission

The Calflora Database is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information about California plant biodiversity for use in Education, Research and Conservation.  Calflora is structured as a digital library to fulfill the following objectives:

  1. to serve as a repository for information on California wild plants in electronic formats from diverse sources, including public agencies, academic institutions, private organizations, and individuals.
  2. to provide this information in readily usable, electronic formats for scientific, conservation, and educational purposes.
  3. to serve public information needs related to scientific study, land management, environmental analysis, education, and appreciation of California plant life.
  4. to coordinate and integrate efforts towards these objectives undertaken by scientists, public agencies, private organizations, and members of the public.

Conceived as a collaborative research project to provide access to habitat descriptions, photographs, observations, nomenclature, distribution maps, and other data on California's wild plants, Calflora is now the online gateway to information about California’s wild plants.  The database provides:

  • comprehensive habitat and distribution information for wild plants—over 7,660 native and introduced species
  • over 850,000 plant location observations
  • information on over 15,000 relationships between old and new plant names
  • access to over 30,000 photographs of California plants in the CalPhotos database (provided in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project)
  • online tools that help users find, display, and download the information they need

Calflora serves a large and increasing number of users, including professionals in a variety of fields, researchers, scientists, students, environmental consultants, and amateur enthusiasts.  In 2002 alone, Calflora received close to one million queries from over 80,000 different Internet domains.  This remarkable success has established Calflora as the de facto portal to wild plant information in California. 

Calflora offers resources for informed, timely approaches to biodiversity protection. Through Calflora, scientists, citizens, and policymakers have quick and easy access to data they need for analyzing species distributions, modeling spread of invasive species, or identifying consequences of habitat loss.  Furthermore, Calflora provides a mechanism for citizens to participate directly in building the information resources they need, and gives all users an opportunity to learn about and appreciate the beauty and diversity of California plant life.

 

 
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