Table of Contents
Plants Blooming in San Diego County
Plant Communities of San Diego County
Keys to Identifying Selected Plant Groups in San Diego County
Floras For San Diego County
Plant Trail Guides For San Diego County Trails
Unlabeled Plant Links
Plants Blooming in San Diego County
- Plant Species of the Borrego Desert: 2008-2009 Blooms
- Wildflowers in the Fallbrook Burn Area, 2003 (San Diego County)
- Observations of Plants Blooming on the Santa Rosa Plateau with Locations by Tom Chester (the Santa Rosa Plateau is just 8 miles north of San Diego County)
- An April Bloom In October! (along S2 two miles east of SR79)
- Comparison of the 2002 Riverside / San Diego County Bloom to the 2001 Bloom by Tom Chester
- Plants blooming versus time along the Dripping Springs Trail, Agua Tibia Mountain, by Tom Chester
- San Diego Natural History Museum: Field Guide: Plants (see Wildflower Reports by year)
- Wildflowers at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
- In the Field (Reports by the San Diego Native Plant Society)
- Observations of Plants Blooming In the San Diego Area, With Locations, 2001 by Tom Chester and Jane Strong
- Observations of Plants Blooming In the Fallbrook Area, With Locations, 2001 by Tom Chester
- Bloom Identification Guide For the Santa Rosa Plateau by Jane Strong and Tom Chester
- Images of Plants of the Santa Rosa Plateau by Tom Chester and Jane Strong
- See also the Southern California and All of California sections at Plants Blooming Now Outside The San Gabriel Mountains by Tom Chester and Jane Strong
Plant Communities in San Diego County
- H. Towner's Plants of Southern California.
- The Forest Service's Ecological Subregions of California Western Granitic Foothills (the area immediately west of Palomar and Cuyamacas), Palomar - Cuyamaca Peak and Desert Slopes (the area to the east of Palomar and Cuyamacas)
- A Guide To The Biotic Zones Of California And Their Dominant Plant Communities: Peninsular Ranges To Colorado Desert by David Chipping
- Why Are Native Plants Important? by Tom Chester
Keys to Identifying Selected Plant Groups in San Diego County
- Photo Key to Wildflowers of San Diego County and the Santa Rosa Plateau (~134 plants) by Kenneth L. Bowles
- Gilias of San Diego County
Floras For San Diego County
- San Diego Natural History Museum: Field Guide: Plants:
- Michael G. Simpson's Plants of San Diego County (by vegetation regions and taxonomy):
- Phylogenetic listing by group
- Listing by area (Mission Trails, Torrey Pine, Anza Borrego, Vernal Pools, Tijuana Estuary, Coastal Dunes, and Cuyamaca and Laguna Mountains)
- Wayne P. Armstrong's Plants Of Jack's Pond: A Checklist Of Trees, Shrubs and Herbaceous Species in May 2000 (in San Marcos just north of the Coronado Hills)
- James Lightner's San Diego County Native Plants (This $24.95 book contains 1,330 photos of 520 cismontane species in San Diego County, organized by family)
- Links from Plants of Southern California: Regional Floras:
Plant Trail Guides For San Diego County Trails
Unlabeled Plant Links
- California Native Plant Society San Diego Chapter
- The County of San Diego's Multiple Species Conservation Program:
- Relation Of Culinary Plants To San Gabriel Mountain Plants by Jane Strong and Tom Chester (some plants same as in San Diego County)
- Ronald D. Quinn's Hoaryleaf Ceanothus Chaparral Community Dynamics
- The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden's California Parasitic Plants
- The California Acorn Report (counts of acorns at Palomar Mountain every year)
- Forest Pest Conditions in California - 1996: Insects
Links checked 5/30/00.
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Updated 9 November 2013