Plants of Southern California: Unlabeled Plant Links

• Southern California Mountains and Foothills Assessment: Habitat and Species Conservation Issues (Chapter 2: Mountain and Foothills Ecosystems; Chapter 3: Factors Influencing Ecosystem Integrity; and Chapter 5: Potentially Vulnerable Species: Plants)

• The USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory's Plant Species Life Form (an excellent reference for a large number of plants. For example, the page on chamise is 95 kB of very interesting information, with references.)

• USDA Plants Database

• Ann King's Know Your Plants... Safe or Poisonous? (lists of poisonous and safe plants)

• California Native Plant Society Chapters:
  • Los Angeles/Santa Monica Mountains
  • Orange County
  • Riverside/San Bernardino
  • San Diego
  • San Gabriel Mountains

• Species With Color Variants by James Dillane, Tom Chester, Michael Charters and Kay Madore

• Relation Of Culinary Plants To San Gabriel Mountains Plants by Jane Strong and Tom Chester
• Climbing Plants of the San Gabriel Mountains by Jane Strong and Tom Chester

• Geographic Distribution of Arctostaphylos Species in the SGM by Tom Chester and Jane Strong

• Comments on the Jepson Manual and A Flora of Southern California by Munz by Tom Chester and Jane Strong

• Rick Halsey's California chaparral
• Ronald D. Quinn's Hoaryleaf Ceanothus Chaparral Community Dynamics
• The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden's California Parasitic Plants

• Natural Areas of Southern California (brief assessment of many areas from the 1970s)

• Gymnosperms of Alta California from the Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Conifers of California, by Ronald M. Lanner, Cachuma Press, Los Olivos, CA, 1999, 274 pp., $36.95 cloth, $24.95 paper (not a web reference, but a highly recommended book on our conifers)
• An Online Catalog of Western Forest Insects and Diseases
• Forest Pest Conditions in California - 1996: Insects

• Philip Greenspun's Smog Damage Zone of the San Gabriel Mountains.
• Ozone Injury to Trees in the Western United States by Paul R. Miller. (Study of trees in the San Bernardino Mountains)
• Nitrogen Deposition Effects on Coastal Sage Vegetation of Southern California by Edith B. Allen et al. (link didn't work on 3/7/05; couldn't find new one; try archive.org)

• Botanical Word Meanings and Name Derivations by Michael L. Charters.
• Dictionary of Botanical Epithets (example: repanda: bent backwards, curved up. This page is mostly from alpine plants, but this is useful in understanding where the Latin name came from for some of our plants.)

• Michael Simpson's Plant Systematics Resources

• Stemming The Invasive Tide: Forest Service Strategy for Noxious and Nonnative Invasive Plant Management (1 MB pdf or rich text file)
• Distribution Of Arundo Donax In Coastal Watersheds Of Southern California (also see other weeds and links at Santa Margarita and San Luis Rey Watersheds Weed Management Area)
• Los Angeles County Weed Management Area (webpage is just a contact person as of 10/1/01)

• Nomenclatural conspectus of California Sedges by Dean Wm. Taylor

• The Fungi of California (not plants, but still of interest to most plant people)

Go to:

• Native and Introduced Plants of Southern California
• Field Guide to the San Gabriel Mountains: Natural History: Plants