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Left: Cyathea medullaris, San Francisco Botanical Garden. Middle: Cheilanthes clevelandii, Tilden Regional Park. Right: Sadleria cyatheoides, UC Botanical Garden. |
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Botanical Gardens and Parks
The following San Francisco Bay Area gardens and parks feature various species of fern:
Golden Gate Park in San Francisco has a large number of mature tree ferns located in Tree Fern Dell, situated between John F. Kennedy Drive and Lily Pond (Quarry Lake), near the Conservatory of Flowers. Click here for a map of the park.
San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum (many types of fern, including tree ferns). Click here for a map of the garden.
Tilden Regional Park, Regional Parks Botanic Garden (California native ferns).
University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (many types of fern, including tree ferns). Click here for a map of the garden.
Click here here for an article on tree ferns in San Francisco, written for The British Pteridological Society Pteridologist, the Fern Magazine.
The article is copyright © 2008 The British Pteridological Society. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means) without the permission of the British Pteridological Society.
Fern Societies
Australia
Fern Society of South Australia, Inc.
Fern Society of Victoria, Inc.
South Africa
Fern Society of Southern Africa
Switzerland
Schweizerische Vereinigung der Farnfreunde
United Kingdom
British Pteridological Society (BPS)
United States
Tropical Fern and Exotic Plant Society, Inc. (TFEPS)
California
Los Angeles International Fern Society (LAIFS)
Texas
Texas Gulf Coast Fern Society (TGCFS)
Conservation
BGCI - Botanic Gardens Conservation International.
IUCN - The World Conservation Union. Donate online now to help save threatened species
Plant Databases
Calflora - Information on wild California plants for conservation, education, and appreciation.
California Native Plant Link Exchange
CalPhotos: Plants - Searchable database of plant images - University of California, Berkeley.
ePIC - Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
GBIF Data Portal - Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants - USDA-ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network.
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Jepson Online Interchange for California Floristics
NISIC - USDA-NAL National Invasive Species Information Center.
PLANTS - USDA-NRCS Database of Plants in the U.S. and its territories.
Tropicos.org - Missouri Botanical Garden.
Horticulture and Gardening
California Horticultural Society
Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture
Horticultural Myths - Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, Ph.D. Washington State University.
National Gardening Association
Misc
California Native Plant Society (CNPS)
CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
Connecticut Ferns - Connecticut Botanical Society.
Contra Costa Clean Water Program
Devonian Times - information on Devonian fauna and flora, including early ferns.
The Fern Pages - Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation - Carnegie Mellon University.
The Jepson Manual Online - comprehensive guide to the nearly 8,000 vascular plant taxa in California.
Mertz Library - New York Botanical Garden.
The University and Jepson Herbaria - University of California at Berkeley.
University of California at Davis - Botanical Conservatory
West Contra Costa Integrated Waste Management Authority - recyclemore
Online Groups and Mailing lists
Ferns mailing list (formerly Fernet). To subscribe, send an e-mail containing SUBSCRIBE FERNS in the message body to: majordomo@hort.net
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