Here you'll find some interesting & useful internet sites, plus links to gardens of our membership. 

Useful Links

Native California Plant Reference:

• Conservation International (Big picture info about California's unique biodiversity)

• California Plant Community Ecoregions map & descriptions: US Forest Svc

• Cal Flora Project - plant species database

• California Native Plant Link Exchange

• California Academy of Science Wildflower Online Encyclopedia

• California Native Plant Society

• California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations

• The Jepson Flora Project, UC Berkeley

• Wildflowers and Other Plants of Southern California

California Garden Management Practices:

• Southern California Chaparral Field Institute

• UC Davis Integrated Pest Management - Bark Beetles and native trees

• California Invasive Plant Council

• Los Angeles Fire Dept. brush clearance, hazardous plants guidelines

California Habitat Conservation:

• Audubon California

• Birdsource (Cornell lab of Ornithology & Audubon joint project)

• California Oak Mortality Taskforce

• California Dept of Fish and Game Habitat Conservation Planning Branch

• Habitat Works of Southern California (Volunteer to help preserve habitats)

• Point Reyes Bird Observatory - reasons for creating a bird habitat

• The Urban Wildlands Group

Native Plant Blogs:

• Native Plant PR

National Habitat Conservation & Programs:

• Center for Plant Conservation

• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

• National Wildlife Federation

• NWF backyard habitat certification program

• Roadside Vegetation

• Wild Ones

Botanical Gardens & Arboretums (Influenced and/or designed by Theodore Payne)

• Descanso Gardens

• Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

• Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Botanical Gardens & Arboretums (that feature California Native Plants Collections)

• Heaps Peak Arboretum

• University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

Check the Wildflower Hotline Links for Wildflower sites

Member's Gardens

If you are a member of the Theodore Payne Foundation and have an online website featuring your garden or native plant information, please contact the webmaster to get your garden listed.

• Emperor Ken's World (Quail Hollow) Ken and Rhonda Gilliland's garden (webmasters)
• Wildscaping  Chris and Trish Meyer's Garden-- lots of helpful info & great pictures
• Henderson Vs. City of Lawndale Chronicles of the Henderson's struggle against the City of Lawndale to keep their native garden.