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If you come across other links that should go on this page, please let us know. Placer county links would be especially welcome...

Our pages on:
- How to create a wildlife haven in your backyard
- Native plant design ideas
- Sensitive Plants of Nevada and Placer Counties, updated Nov. 2001
Our parent organization, the California Native Plant Society
- Our neighboring chapters
- El Dorado County Chapter of CNPS (Placerville area)
- Sacramento Valley Chapter of CNPS(Yolo, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba and lower Placer)
- Mount Lassen Chapter of CNPS(Butte, Glenn, Tehama, and Plumas Counties)
- Other CNPS Chapter websites
- The CNPS Rare Plant Program
LOCAL WEBSITES OF INTEREST
- UC Master Gardeners of Nevada County
- San Francisco State University's summer courses at the Sierra Nevada Field Campus just up Highway 49 above Sierra Buttes and Bassetts and below Yuba Pass
- NCGold Online's Bridgeport Wildflowers page, with info on wildflowers at Bridgeport State Historic Park.
- Kid stuff:
  - Online Wildflower Coloring Book
- American Herb Association, with local author and member Kathi Keville.
- Former N.C. resident Carol Leigh's Picture This website on outdoor photography, with many links to wildflower events and activities.
- The Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program, a research and education program of the University of California dedicated to conserving California's 10 million acres of oak woodlands. This website provides a wealth of information about oaks, including oak regeneration, oak woodland ecology, wildlife habitat in oak woodlands and pest management.
The official mega-source for Plant Information in California is the Jepson Interchange.
The main photo source is CalFlora in Berkeley.
An even larger bank of living organisms is CalPhotos - CA Native Plants and Habitats, more than 17000 images of CA plants as well as fungi, animals and habitats, from UC Berkeley.
The Native American Ethnobotany Database from the University of Michigan
The Forest Issues Group is now on the web.
Russell Towles' pages on the North Fork of the American River-- trails, geology, native wildflower gallery...
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Texas
Caylie's site for kids and gardening
Local and distant native plant sources we use for our plant sales.
- Canyon Creek Nursery - Oroville 530-533-2166
- Cornflower Farms - Elk Grove
- Far West Bulbs - Grass Valley
- Floral Native Nursery - Chico
- Hedgerow Farms - Winters
- High Ranch Nursery - Loomis
- Las Pilitas Nursery - Santa Margarita, their website has a wealth of information on gardening with California natives.
- Native Springs Nursery - Durham(Chico) - 530-774-4362
- Sierra Valley Farms - Beckwourth
- Sierra View Nursery - Loomis
- Spring Fever Nursery, Yankee Hill 530-534-1556.
- Shilling Seed - Auburn, 530-268-3174
- Theodore Payne Foundation - Sun Valley, excellent reference for native plants.
- Tree of Life Nursery - San Juan Capistrano
Find vernal pools information at:
- www.sacsplash.org, a 5th grade curriculum based on the Mather Field vernal pools in Sacramento County.
- www.cnps.org/conservation/UCMerced.htm
- www.vernalpools.org
Butterflies of California (which pollinate plants)
Check the Nevada County Land Trust Site for further listings of their activities.
Placer Group of the Motherlode Chapter of the Sierra Club, in Placer County
The Yolo Basin Foundation, in and around Davis
Other U.S. native plant organizations
Educational Plant Information Sources
The Living Wild Project by our member Alicia Funk
Berry Fruit Guide (from Craft Central, Home Ec.)
Edible Wild Plants (from Craft Central, Home Ec.)

Last updated
March 3, 2013

Other links

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