Wildflowers

of the

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

Links

Updated 2-22-08. To speed up the loading of this home page we have removed the tables of links to their own separate pages. This will be most noticeable to users on slow internet connections such as a telephone dial-up. Use the links above to access one of the tables of links that give access to the plants available on this site. The new table of links to the pages of the individual flowers is now complete. All species on this site are now available in this table in a simple alphabetical listing by both scientific name and common name(s). 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." If your browser supports tool tips you can use your mouse to "hover" over an entry in the tables to cross-reference the names. Access to the plants available on this site is by way of tables of links. One table of links, the Individual Species table, leads directly to a page featuring the individual plant listed. This table is organized as a simple alphabetical listing by both scientific name and common name. All of the species on this site are available in this table. The second table, the Thumbnail table, is broken up into two sections, the Scientific Names section and the Common Names section. Each section is further divided into four columns representing four possible choices of flower color. The links in the thumbnail table open one of the four color pages and then cause that page to scroll down to the location of the thumbnail picture associated to its link. That is to say, the thumbnail links are a shortcut method of finding a particular flower amongst the many available on any one of the four color pages. The Thumbnail table does not contain the grasses and ferns since we have chosen not to create a thumbnail picture for them. 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. Each entry contains the scientific name, the family name, and at least one common name. In addition, we provide the approximate location, habitat, and date for the thumbnail picture. 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 name we will try to use the most currently accepted name. In cases where the scientific name has changed recently we may include the old name as well. An asterisk (*) denotes an established non-native. All pictures and photomicrographs containing a measurement grid employ a 1mm scale unless otherwise noted. Please note that the four color thumbnail pages have many pictures (in some cases well over a hundred pictures) and may 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'. 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 ]