• American Association of Botanical Artists The American Society of Botanical Artists, Inc. (ASBA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting public awareness of botanical art and to encourage the development of this continuing artistic tradition.
• California Botanical Society
The California Botanical Society was founded by Wiillis Linn Jepson in 1915 and has served a major role in advancing western American botany.
• California Native Plant Society The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a statewide non-profit organization of amateurs and professionals who seek to increase understanding of California's native flora and to preserve this rich resource for future generations.
• The International Botanical Congress The International Botanical Congress (IBC) is a major convention of scientists from around the world that discusses new research in the plant sciences.

Art:

• Science Illustration Program, U.C.S.C. This one-year program is intended for people who wish to pursue a career in scientific illustration, as well as for scientists who wish to acquire the skills to illustrate their own research papers.
• Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Inc. Founded at the Smithsonian Institution in 1968, the Guild is a non-profit organization that sets high professional standards, provides opportunities for professional and scholarly development, encourages and assists member networking, and promotes itself to potential clients and the general public.
• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation The Art department holdings include of 30,000 original paintings (mostly 20th-century watercolors), drawings and original prints dating from the Renaissance to the present.
• Sierra Visions   A tribute to the beauty and wonder of California's magnificent Sierra Nevada and the one site stop for all of your Sierra information. Magnificent photographs by Steven Bourelle, photographer and writer.
• Botanical Artists This site is a gallery of botanical art produced by comtemporary artists.
• Paula R. Fong has illustrated numerous scientific publications, plant and wildlife posters, trail guides, and interpretative trail signs. Her primary medium is watercolor with pen and ink.Her twelve years as a soil scientist and ecologist with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service gives her a unique perspective of the art in nature.

Botanical Gardens:

• Huntington Botanical Gardens Botanical Gardens spanning nearly 150 acres with approximately 15,000 kinds of plants from all over the world.
• Missouri Botanical Garden The Missouri Botanical Garden located in the city of St. Louis is home to over 30 different gardens, the Climatron®, a world famous Botanical Research Center, an attractive Education Division, and much more.
• Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is devoted to the collection, cultivation, study, and display of native California plants and to graduate training and research in plant systematics and evolution.
• Tilden Park Botanic Garden This regional park botanic garden is "devoted to the collection, growth, display, and preservation of the native plants of California.

Nurseries:

• Yerba Buena Nursery A unique retail nursery specializing in California native plants, as well as native and exotic ferns.

Retail Businesses:

• The Pine Cone Lady The Queen of Pine Cones has created several sites focusing on pine cone crafts, information, and sales.
• Columbia Pinecones and Botanicals A small company in California's High Sierra offering specimen quality pine cones, branches, wreaths, mosses, lichens, pods, sea shells, and botanical picture frames.
• Pacific Venture Outdoor Products Introducing the Sierra Scarf ...designed as an attractive and versatile outdoor tool-loaded with practical information, delightful illustrations and sound outdoor tips. A bandanna that doubles as a survival guide!
• Duncan House: Celtic dirks and blades, traditional and custom jewelry, single and three-frond bracken fern broaches, Scottish clan crests.
• Budda-Nature Maps & Books: Extensive selection of maps, including parks of California and states nationwide, botany and nature books, hand lenses, and much more of interest to the naturalist.
• Juniper Ridge: Wild plant products from the mountains and deserts of the west. Part of the purpose of this site is to draw attention to the wilderness and the need to protect it.

Natural History Associations:

• Calaveras Big Trees Association CBTA was created to assist and support the interpretation and environmental education programs at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park.
• Yosemite Association The Yosemite Association supports interpretive, educational, research, scientific and environmental programs in Yosemite National Park.
• Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany

Wildflower Sites

• Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve The Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve is established to protect and perpetuate outstanding displays of native wildflowers, particularly the California Poppy, Eschscholzia californica, the state flower.
• California Academy of Sciences A beautiful collection of photographs of California native wildflowers sponsored by the California Academy of Sciences.
• The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center was founded to educate people about the environmental necessity, economic value, and natural beauty of native plants.
• Almaden Research Center Wildflowers The Almaden Research Center Wildflowers page showcasing the wide variety of California wildflowers that grow on the hills and ridges around the center; a beautiful educational site with photos of wildflowers sorted by color.
• California Natural Diversity Database The California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) is a statewide inventory of the locations and condition of the state's rarest species and natural communities.
• The Lewis And Clark Herbarium Spectacular photographs of the plants seen or collected by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, 1804-1806.
• CalPhotos A collection of thousands of images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes, perfect for research and reference . . . extensive plan image library.
• Calflora: The Calflora Database is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information about California plant biodiversity for use in Education, Research and Conservation.

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