Butchart Gardens, on Greater Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

This site is mostly about things botanical, with occasional forays into vaguely related topics. In the short term it is a searchable collection of plant photos, concentrating on wild plants you might encounter while walking or hiking. The long term goal is to provide assisted searches that make it easier for amateurs to identify plants.

I am not a botanist!

I got interested in learning about flora recently and I am very much an amateur. That's why I'm doing the web site now, while I'm still having many difficulties with identification. The assisted search goal is probably years away—right now I am just creating the collection.

There are many excellent guide books available, but the need for portability limits their completeness and depth. Web sites have potentially limitless space for providing as much detail as needed. I hope this site will eventually evolve into a reasonably complete adjunct to the many other guides and sites already present.

This site is under construction. Only some of the species whose Latin names begin with "a" have articles at this point.

To get started, type a search term above, or take a look at one of these indices:

Species Index

Common Names Index

Complete Index (text, no thumbnails)

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