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The meeting was held at Shepard Garden & Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento. This will be a “hybrid” meeting and will be streamed on Zoom. Unfortunately, this presentation was not recorded.
California’s digital online library of plant biodiversity is rapidly growing! Are you ready to learn about how Calflora and its volunteer contributor- based database seeks to maintain, serve, and improve this growing need in California? Well, buckle your seatbelts as Cynthia Powell will share with us exciting updates from Calflora – which is a separate nonprofit from CNPS. In this talk, Cynthia will take us behind the scenes at how the database aggregates plant observations from thousands of sources including iNaturalist and specimens from CCH. Calflora is where amateurs and professionals learn about California’s native and non-native wild plants, their distribution, rarity, current taxonomy, and perhaps their future. For most users, it is an irreplaceable resource for their work and interests.
For more details, you can check out Calflora’s most important and innovative services include detailed distribution maps, What Grows Here?, Weed (Invasive Plant) Manager, and the Planting Guide.
Cynthia Powell is Calflora’s Executive Director. She graduated with her MS in GIS in 2010 forecasting Mokelumne River water supply based on MODIS remote sensing snowpack images. She’s been examining what was under that snow — plants — ever since. She coordinates all of Calflora’s programs, research, outreach, and advocacy, as well as fundraising and management.
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