If you ever wander around wanting to know the names of plants and animals around you, Seek, a newly rebuilt app from the iNaturalist team at the California Academy of Sciences, now offers instant identifications through the camera view on … Read more
How much damage does trampling do to wildflowers? No other state is as iconic for its flora as California, so it’s no surprise that thousands of Californians have flocked to Southern California to experience wildflower heaven in this year’s “super … Read more
Looking to learn more about wildflowers this spring? Consider introducing yourself first, José González writes.
Text and research by the California Center for Natural History Fledging Hatching in early spring as fuzzy white balls that weigh about the same as two slices of bread, young redtails (Buteo jamaicensis) grow quickly, making high whistling calls to their … Read more
Rob Badger’s collection goes by the title “Beauty and the Beast”
The world was not always so colorful.
Can the SFPUC’s new nursery slow the spread of a tree-killing fungus?
Vetch and Argentine ants cooperate, exchanging food for protection.
Can the native plant movement outlast its scientific and cultural critics?
Winter in the Bay Area is a good time to spot the lesser-known stage of ferns
