If you are an iNaturalist contributor and want to find your own records, enter your iNaturalist handle in the iNaturalist Handle field.

Enter Scientific Name to find records of a certain plant.

Plant List
Choose one of your lists to search for all plants on the list.

Start Date and End Date:
Enter one, or the other, or both of these criteria to bracket the Observation Date of records you are interested in. Dates are entered in the format YYYY-MM-DD so that February 20, 2017 is written as 2017-2-20. If you enter 2017-2-20 as the end date, the result will include records that were entered on or before 2017-2-20. If you put the same date in both Start Date and End Date, the results will only include records entered on that date.

To find records from a certain area, zoom the map into that area, and check in map area.

Error Radius:
Most iNaturalist records have an error radius, but some do not. Check error radius to limit search results to records that have an error radius within a certain number of meters. The error radius of each record is displayed in the results.

Obscured Records:
Note that the locations of some records have been automatically obscured by iNaturalist. You can tell a record that has been obscured by looking at the error radius. A high value for error radius (> 20,000 meters) most likely means it has been obscured. If the location of a record has been obscured, you will not be able to add it to Calflora using this application.

Maximum Number of Records; Search Strategies:
This application can will read a maximum of 1800 records from the iNaturalist API per search. However, if some of those 1800 have already been added to Calflora, you will not see them; you will only see those which have not yet been added to Calflora. To work around this limit, here are some suggested search strategies:

1. Search for one plant at a time.
2. If you are looking for all plants in an area, zoom in close. Or, use other criteria to limit the number of records -- for instance, search for records made after a certain date.

This application will find

• Research grade records.
• Records of wild plants made in California.
• Records with a CC license on both the photo and the observation.

This application will not find

• Records of rare plants.
• Records already assimilated into Calflora.

To see records of a particular plant already in Calflora, click the ID to open a menu and click location-closeup.

The results of your search appear in a table and on the map. iNaturalist observations are indicated by an orange icon on the map.

Once you are seeing some results, click the ID to open a menu. In this menu:

detail		See this observation on the iNaturalist website.
location-closeup		See the location of the this observation in the Plant Distribution application, along with any nearby records of the same plant already on Calflora.
add to Calflora		Add the record to Calflora with its photo.

Once the record is in Calflora, you will be the owner, and you will be able to find it in My Observations -- the ID is the same but with "in:" in front. You cannot edit the Calflora version of this record, but you can delete it from My Observations.

Photos: When a record is added to Calflora, a single photo (the first available) is included. In Observation Search results, the "small" version of the photo is shown; see this search for Vaccinium ovatum. On the Observation Detail page, the full size version of the photo is shown, and there is a link to the iNaturalist page for this observation where any other photos will be visible.

If you searched for a particular plant, then you can overlay Calflora's current distribution of the plant on top of the map. If any of your iNaturalist records are already in Calflora, you should be able to find them by doing this. This can also make it easier to see where an iNaturalist record indicates an extension of the known range. To do so, open Current Distribution and check individual observations.

Once a month, some records of wild plants in California are automatically assimilated into Calflora from iNaturalist. This process tries to find records where the location is feasible, and the distribution of the plant is currently under-documented on Calflora. More details about how this works are available in About Datasets.

Several people who contribute to both iNaturalist and Calflora have been disappointed not to see their iNaturalist records appear automatically on Calflora. This application will allow them to bring important iNaturalist records into Calflora.