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| NEW FEATURES ON CALFLORA | ||
| WHAT GROWS HERE? | ||
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What Grows Here is a new Calflora project
which emphasizes what plants have been observed growing near
a particular place. Through this interface, users can pick
a place in California by any of several different approaches
(eg. by town, zip code, park, or watershed).
Results are displayed in a list (with or without photos),
or as points on a relief map.
When complete, What Grows Here will be a suite of web applications. What Grows Here by Watershed is the first of these applications to be released (August, 2007). What Grows Here has been developed thus far with the generous support of the Ji Ji Foundation and the San Francisco Estuary Project. | ||
| by Watershed ... | ||
| OBSERVATIONS | ||
| Contribution (Calflora users want to know!) | ||
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Since its return in February, 2005,
the Online Contribution System has enabled
contributors to add thousands
of new observations (including hundreds of new county occurrences)
to the Calflora Observation Library.
The system takes advantage of the recently expanded
plant name library,
so that you may add either current names or synonyms.
Calflora is actively seeking high quality location checklists from local experts. As an example of what can be done, we recently added over 8,000 observations from Marin CNPS' location checklists (thanks to Doreen Smith). We were able to associate many of these Marin County locations with polygons, which makes for an interesting interactive map. Recent contributions from Teresa Sholars and Peter Warner have greatly helped to fill in the distribution picture in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. We are looking for volunteers to do some browser-based data entry of checklists. Please contact Calflora for details if you are interested. | ||
| Dynamic Observation Query | ||
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The observation database contains @
800,000 contributed observations of wild plants in California.
This form allows you to query the observation database by characteristics
of observation records -- for instance, location.
It also allows you to query by characteristics of the plants observed
-- for instance, lifeform, or status (is it a weed?
is it rare?).
The query is dynamic in the sense that when you see the results of the query, you can always get back to the query form to refine the parameteres and run it again. It is tightly integrated with the map viewer: if you invoke the map viewer from this form, you can refine the query later from the map viewer. This query can also produce a species list from a set of observations, group species by family, and show photos.
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| Calflora Map Viewer | ||
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If an Observation Query finds results which are
georeferenced, you can invoke the map viewer to
look more closely at those results. When you move to a new location
inside of the map viewer, you can press Find Observations,
which will re-execute your original observation query
(minus spatial components) for the area that is
currently visible in the map viewer.
The viewer shows relief maps (based on 30-meter DEMs from the USGS) with 15 zoom levels. Mouse roll-over identifies the visible observations (points and polygons).
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| PLANT NAMES | ||
| The plant name library has been substantially expanded, with new records from CNPS, ICPN and PLANTS totaling more than 31,000. Because nomenclature authorities do not always agree, several Calflora queries allow you to choose which interpretation of plant nomenclature (current names and synonyms) you want to see. | ||
| Scientific Name Query | ||
Use this page to find species by scientific name,
with respect to several nomenclature authorities.
Enter a pre-Jepson Manual name, a Jepson Manual name,
or a post-Jepson Manual name.
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| Name Status | ||
Use this page to find the status of a scientific name
(current or synonym) with respect to several nomenclature authorities.
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