There are over 2,000 species of ferns and flowering plants known to occur in the region generally referred to as the Sierra Nevada. Nearly 500 species of wildflowers and shrubs are included on this application, which covers the Sierra Nevada mountains, its foothills, and the Tehachapi Mountains. This application is based on “500 Sierra Wildflowers,” a CD-ROM program previously released by Hartman Multimedia.

Most of the images were provided by Larry Norris, Jim Shevock, Karen Callahan, and Edge of Eden. Many species have both close-up images of the flower as well as full plant images.


Produced in conjunction with BioHere and Hartman Multimedia.  Integration with BioHere’s species sighting database will be available in future versions.


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Descriptions for each plant include leaf and flower features for identification, latin and common names for the plant, blooming period, and plant communities in which the plant is found.  One touch takes you to the full-sized photos for the plant, or the next or previous plant.   Botanical terms are linked to the Glossary, which also includes illustrations of plant anatomical features.



The user interface is designed to make use in the field as fast as possible.  Quickly browse thumbnail images sorted by color, family, and photo type.  Scroll through full-sized images by dragging.

To quickly identify a plant, you can browse 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. 


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.

Sierra Nevada Wildflowers includes built-in help and a glossary that is accessible from the main screen and from each plant description page.

Available on the iPhone App Store. California Wildflowers was developed by by Earthrover Software in conjunction with Steve Hartman of Hartman Multimedia / BioHere, with photographs from Edge of Eden, Carl Goodpasture, Jim Shevock, Larry Norris, and others.  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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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 region or habitat you’ll be visiting.

  1. -Use the Index and Search functions to look up plants by scientific and common names (and synonyms). Look up plants by family, by flower color, by geographic area, and by habitat type. Further information about geographic areas and habitat types are included.

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