SGMPlants is a highly detailed interactive field guide to plants of the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, California.  Based on an interactive CDROM from Cliff and Gabi McLean of Nature At Hand, this large app--over 600MB--has the most photos and most detailed plant information of any iPhone guide covering this region.


Never forget your field guide in the car or at home again--this app is the perfect companion for you if you hike, bike, camp, or even just drive through the San Gabriel Mountains.


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The powerful search function lets you find plants based on leaf and flower characteristics, blooming period, plant type, gardening requirements, plant community, and more.


Search results can be viewed as a list of plants, or in the thumbnail browser.  You can have a good idea of the plants you’ll see in bloom on a hike if you search for plants that are blooming now, and the type of habitat you’ll be visiting.

To quickly identify a plant, you can browse over 800 thumbnails organized by photo type (flower, seed/fruit, or foliage), flower color, and family.  Buttons quickly allow you to jump to the group of photos you’re interested in. 


Since amateurs and professionals alike can often make a good guess at the family of an unknown plant, you can browse plant photos and descriptions by family.

For quickly looking up a species, genus, or family by name, there's an alphabetic index with common and scientific names for all species and families. 

SGMPlants features built-in help and an illustrated glossary, with glossary terms hyperlinked from plant descriptions and natural history pages.

Available on the iPhone App Store. 


If you’re an author or photographer and would like to see your guide on the iPhone or iPod touch, contact us at c31337@gmail.com.


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In-depth description of each plant includes latin and common names, family, thumbnail photo, key traits for identification, gardening suitability, plant communities, fire and drought adaptions, meaning of the plant's name, related species, gardening requirements, and more.

Also included are dozens of pages of additional content on botany, gardening with California Native Plants, the geology and geography of the San Gabriel Mountains, references, and more.

SGMPlants includes over 1800 full-sized, captioned photos for 258 species of plants.  There are separate photos showing flowers, leaves, seeds or fruit, and habitat, allowing you to identify a plant even when it’s not blooming.

This thumbnail view is used in many parts of the application--whether to browse all photos, as you might with a guidebook at home, or when viewing search results, or only those plants in a particular family or genus.