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Welcome to Chez's Wildflower Collections
Did you know there are an estimated 400,000 species of plants worldwide? Perhaps even more that we have yet to discover and name to science.
Biological hotspots are places where diversity is at its greatest. The state of California is considering to be one of these areas, as is the Amazon Rainforest... etc.
In most of these hotspots, new species of plants are being discovered every year, even in a place as well documented as California!
We have made it our goal to travel to parts of the world where floral diversity is high, and document these plants with photographs and geographic data. In all cases to date, all flora work outside the USA has been donated to local universities or museums, to aid botanists with their collections and databases.
As we continue to travel the world outside the USA in search of floras, we see more and more each day how the human race is impacting the world we all share. Plants are a great way to measure environmental health, and plant communities are good indicators of ecosystem stability. In many cases, indigenous land management and agricultural practices went hand-in-hand with the natural world, but as political regime change and pressures of drought, overpopulation, and tourism imact these areas, these indigenous practices are falling by the wayside, and are instead being replaced by conventional, and typically more damaging, land managment practices. Our goal is not just to document the flora we see because it is fun, but it is also to document these changes to the land, and perhaps learn how we can bring our world and its ecosystems back into harmony with its people.
Wildlfower Collection
On this part of our website you will find photographs and descriptions to all the flora we have documented, from the United States to Nepal and East Africa. Pages are broken down by region.
Want larger images on CD?
We sell our collections here.
All photographs on this website are available in their full size form. Pricing is as follows:
Single plant photograph collection: $0.99 per plant, email format.
Regional photograph collection; contains all images from that region: $4.99, CD format
Entire database, plus any additions made over the next calendar year: $35.00, USB flash format (device included in price)
USA
Southwestern USA
Alaska
New England
Hawaii
Outside USA:
Nepal