New Calflora Tools for Your Native Plant Ventures and Adventures

Join the California Native Plant Society to learn from Calflora’s Executive Director Cynthia Powell about new Calflora tools for CNPS native plant professionals, gardeners, and enthusiasts! Calflora.org is a comprehensive source of data on California’s wild plants that provides analytical tools and displays geographical plant occurrences.

Calflora shares millions of plant observations across the state from dozens of sources and serves them to the public free of charge. These data sources include CCH2 (plant specimens), iNaturalist, and CNPS plant checklists from around the state. How can you better use this incredible resource to learn more about regional plants?

At this presentation, Cynthia will cover Calflora’s planning your garden tool, specimen and other plant observations used in this tool, detailed plant ranges now available on Calflora’s species pages (for example, Grindelia stricta), population monitoring tools, and using What Grows Here? in the field. She will also go over the important role CNPS members play in submitting and commenting on Calflora observations and checklists.

Following the presentation, Cynthia will lead a local hike on Thursday May 5th to demonstrate use of these tools in the field. Due to COVID, we must limit the number of participants on the hike. Attending the presentation the evening before is a prerequisite to attending the plant hike as well.

Cynthia Powell’s bio: After 3 years as Calflora’s GIS Project Manager, in 2016 Cynthia became Calflora’s Executive Director. She graduated with her MS in GIS (Geographic Information Science) in 2010 forecasting Mokelumne River water supply based on MODIS remote sensing snow pack images. She’s been examining what was under that snow — plants — ever since. She coordinates all Calflora programs, research, outreach, and advocacy, as well as fundraising and project management.

Zoom Link: https://cnps-org.zoom.us/j/87012923129