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The following are links to other Internet websites related to Celebrating Wildflowers. These links include websites of our partners in the Forest Service, other agencies, and organizations.

Native Plant Societies

These organizations promote preservation, conservation, and knowledge about native plants. Most include a wide array of activities and information including field trips, wild wildflower walks, wildflower presentations, seed exchanges, native plant gardening, restoration information, photo galleries, botanical references, newsletters, plant lists, information about invasive plants and plant classes.

Botanical Gardens and Arboreta

Other Botanical Resources

  • American Orchid Society
    A colorful site with excellent information on an array of topics including orchid species, growing orchids, the orchid Doctor, orchid propagation, classes, exhibits and orchid conservation.
  • BEN (Botanical Electronic News)
    Interesting and colorful botanical news, updated monthly, this site includes the archives of all issues.
  • Death Valley Wildflowers
    Information about wildflower viewing in Death Valley National Park and links to desert wildflower photos.
  • Flora of North America
    FNA presents for the first time, in one published reference source, information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico. The Flora will appear in 30 volumes and will be available in print and on the Web. This valuable site includes on-line volumes of the flora, botanical educational material and the Flora of North America Newsletter.
  • Herb Society of America
    An organization that focuses on educating its members and the public on the cultivation of herbs and the study of their history and uses, both past and present.
  • ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System
    A source of authoritative taxonomic information on plants as well as animals, fungi and microbes.
  • International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
    An in depth database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Searchable by plant name, author and publications.
  • KentuckyFlora.com
    An entertaining and informatinve website, whether you are a native Ketuckian, a visitor to the Commonwealth State, or an enthusiast from another country just browsing the Web.
  • Native Plants: Studying, protecting, and growing native plants
    An online forum with ongoing discusssions about native plants education, conservation, and horticulture.
  • NatureServe
    NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization that provides scientific information and tools to help guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are a source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.
  • Plants of the Lewis and Clark Trail
    This site is just what the title says; includes details about the plants collected on the Lewis and Clark expedition, numerous color photos of the plants, with descriptive information.
  • Plants of Wisconsin
    Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. The site includes vascular plants, bryophytes, and ethnobotanical information.
  • Prairie Keepers
    Provides public education and volunteer labor to address prairie restoration, including native plant gardening; work to improve local natural areas; and learn from local experts about topics ranging from butterfly gardening, conservation and biological control of invasive plants. The site includes restoration events, native plant gardening workshops and project descriptions.
  • Project Budburst
    Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for citizen scientists designed to engage the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers. BudBurst participants take careful observations of the phenological events such as the first bud burst, first leafing, first flower, and seed or fruit dispersal of a diversity of tree and flower species, including weeds and ornamentals. The citizen science observations and records are reported into the BudBurst data base.
  • Smithsonian Department of Botany
    This site includes botanical art and images, references, botanical events and activities, information about research and collections.
  • Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Ferns and Trees
    A web site for the identification and appreciation of mountain and desert wildflowers, ferns, and trees of the Four Corners area of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.
  • Urban Bee Gardens, A Practical Guide to Introducing the World's Most Prolific Pollinator into Your Garden
  • USDA PLANTS Database
    This very usable database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. Wide arrays of searches are available, including scientific name, common name, and state searches. The image gallery includes 30,000 images, downloads include checklists and posters.

Conservation Organizations

  • Center for Biological Diversity
    Programs, campaigns, resources, events, and information for "Protecting endangered species and wild places."
  • Center for Plant Conservation
    The mission of the Center for Plant Conservation is to conserve and restore the rare native plants of the United States.
  • The Hummingbird Society
    The Mission of the Hummingbird Society is to promote the understanding and conservation of hummingbirds.
  • Hunt Institute
    Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh. Specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation.
  • Intermountain Native Plant Growers Association (INPGA)
    Sponsored by the INPGA, Utah's Choice is a plant tagging, signage and education program designed to assist the green industry to more effectively market Intermountain native plants.
  • Native Plant Conservation Campaign (NPCC)
    The Native Plant Conservation Campaign (NPCC) is a project of the California Native Plant Society and the Center for Biological Diversity, two of the nation's leading biological diversity conservation science and advocacy groups.
  • North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
    An organization that encourages the health of resident and migratory pollinating animals in North America.
  • Plant Conservation Alliance
    PCA Members and Cooperators work collectively to solve the problems of native plant extinction and native habitat restoration, ensuring the preservation of our ecosystems.
  • Rare Care (Center for Urban Horticulture)
    The Washington Rare Plant Care & Conservation Program (Rare Care) at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture establishes the first plant conservation program focused exclusively on vascular plants designated as rare in Washington State.
  • The Pollinator Partnership
    The Pollinator Partnership is a project of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), which is coordinated by the non-profit Coevolution Institute (CoE). The Pollinator Partnership is a series of projects to help people, plants and pollinators. One project is Pollinator.org, a source of pollinator information for consumers, gardeners, educators, resource managers, producers and farmers.
  • The Xerces Society
    An international nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting biological diversity through invertebrate conservation.

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