Adapted by Daniel Mathews from his regionally treasured books Cascade-Olympic Natural History and Rocky Mountain Natural History, Northwest Mountain Wildflowers is a field guide to the flowering herbs of the spectacular region stretching from Oregon’s lava beds to Alberta’s icefields, from Bella Coola, BC, to the Popo Agie, Wyoming.


This app includes 718 full-screen photos of 500 wildflower species. And they aren’t just identified; you’ll find pages and pages of fascinating natural history, biographies of the naturalist-explorers the plants are named after, help with pronouncing and understanding the scientific names, and more.


You can choose among several paths to your plant: just check off your location and then scroll through thumbnail photos by color; use flower structure and leaf features for a precise search; browse in the index, viewing your choice of common names, scientific names, or both mixed together; look for them by plant family; or enter keywords and let the app search for those. Search results are viewable both as a list of names and a screen of thumbnail photos.


The app resides in memory. Hey, when you’re off in the mountains you don’t want to be dependent on a signal, do you? But when you’re back on a network, you’ll find direct links from the species pages to online resources.


For many nature buffs, this guide covers a big enough range to encompass 95% of their wanderings, not just their top five day hikes. Yet the range is small enough for the guide to speak with a Northwest voice, from enough regional experience and familiarity to get the geographic details right. The Northwest is an ecological continuum; a majority of the 500 species grow in at least 6 of the 7 states and provinces. 


Look for the region’s woody plants to be covered soon in Northwest Mountain Trees and Shrubs.


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“As a park ranger I find myself reaching for it daily to answer questions. The writing is superb and one finds oneself reading it by a fire on a cold winter day just because.”

—Geordie Romer, back-country ranger, North Cascades N.P., on Cascade-Olympic Natural History

Don’t just take our word for the quality of this app’s content.  Here’s what other writers say of Daniel Mathews's work:


"Not only informative, but literate and shrewd."

—Gary Snyder


“In the high country in summer it becomes a near-bible, opening a world that grows more mysterious and beautiful even as its grandeur is defined and its intricacies known.”

—David James Duncan

 

Scroll through flower, fruit, and leaf thumbnails to visually identify a plant, or browse plant names sorted by scientific or common names.  Both thumbnail and list views are available when viewing search results, single plant families, or the complete index of plants.

Available on the iPhone App Store. 


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A compact but powerful search function lets you find plants by region, habitat, flower and leaf characteristics, name, or description text. 

Dozens of additional pages of content cover the region’s mountain ranges, naturalists, botanical topics, and more, illustrated with beautiful color photos and drawings.

Each species has one or more full-sized photos and a detailed description giving characteristics for identification, the origin of the plant’s name, the range, and lively, entertaining prose to help you get to know the plant.  Plant descriptions include links to glossary terms, similar species, and articles on  natural history and explorers.  Each plant description screen contains links to unaffiliated web sites that offer additional photos and information on the species. Users are individually responsible for checking the copyright owner's website for copyright permissions and licensing information for material that appears on the unaffiliated web sites.