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

Curious about the plants you encounter while walking? So am I. That’s what this site is about. For now it is just a searchable collection of plant photos. The long term goal is to create a true online field guide for North American wild plants.

I am not a botanist!

I got interested in learning about flora fairly recently, while walking or hiking, and I am still an amateur. I hope this site will eventually make it easy for amateurs like me to identify the plants they encounter while walking.

If you enjoy hiking too, but haven’t been doing enough of it lately, this wonderful video of Jason Slibeck’s trip along the Appalachian Trail will reinvigorate you. The trail runs from Georgia to Maine. Jason’s video combines hundreds of stills into a video flipbook. Zoom it up to fill the screen to fully appreciate it.

A Quick Trip on the Appalachian Trail (AT) from Jason Slibeck on Vimeo.

This site is under construction. Currently it lists 1775 species; so far, articles have been written for only about 50% of these. In lists, species that don’t yet have an article are marked with a writing hand (✍).

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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