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BIOL 311 & 311L FIELD BOTANY
ON-LINE RESOURCES

The following sites are essential resources to your success as a botanist in California:

The Jepson eFlora is the definitive authority for identifying plants of California and contains resources for additional field information. The eFlora table of contents to families is one place to start if you know your plant' family.
Calfora is an excellent user-friendly source for identifying and studying wild plants in California.
The California Native Plant Society is the premier organization devoted to caring for our botanical heritage
Calphotos is a photographic image database of plants and other California artifacts that can help confirm identities of plants.
John Muir Laws' guide to nature journaling provides suggestions for improving botanical journal entries.
iNaturalist is an online community resource for personal, group, and citizen-science nature study.