I'm Steve Sullivan and I made this Website. I collected the data, organized it and wrote the programs.

I obtained a BS degree in Math from Oregon State University before there was a computer science degree. Then I worked for Tektronix for 35 years as a programmer, circuit board designer and an integrated circuit designer. Now that I have retired, making a wildflower identification websites and Apps has become my hobby. I also enjoy taking wildflower hikes with my wife, Yan, who enjoys photographing flowers with macro photography.

We formed Wildflower Search, an Oregon Not-for-profit Corporation that owns and maintains the WildflowerSearch.org websites and the Free Wildflower Identification apps.

Zoya Akulova is a Russian botanist now living in California. She works as a botanist in an environmental consulting company. She has an amazing collection of over 18,000 botanical photos on the CalPhotos website including photos from all over the world.

Thanks you, Zoya, for using a Creative Commons license, allowing us to use your botanical photos in this website.

David Eickhoff originally worked as nursery manager in the Pacific Northwest for a nursery specializing in wildflowers from around the world. When David moved to Hawai'i he studied the native Hawaiian flora and fauna as a Native Hawaiian Plant Specialist. He has hiked all of the major Hawaiian islands and posted numerous photos of native species on Flickr. For a while he volenteered with The Nature Conservancy, outplanting endangered native Hawaiian plants. He currently grows many native Hawaiian plants on his property.

David has been the researcher for the nativeplants.hawaii.edu website. David licenses his Flickr photos so the we can use them.

John Game worked as a molecular biologist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for many years. Currently, he has an affiliation with Stanford University. His special interests include ferns, the family Liliaceae and mountain plants of northwest California. He is active with the California Native Plant Society and Calfora, and is a research associate at the University of California Herbarium at Berkeley. John is also doing research on Pacific Island ferns.

John has over a thousand plant photos on the CalPhotos website. By using a Creative Commons license on his photos he allows us to use his excellent photos of Hawaiian plants in this website.

John R. Gwaltney earned a Master's Degree in Wildlife Biology and spent most of his working career in the foresty supply business. As a hobby John has built the best botanical website in the Southeastern portion of the United States: Southeastern Flora.

John's website contains over 50,000 pictures of over 2,200 species of plants. We are grateful to be able to use John's botanical photos in this app.

John Hilty became interested in wildflowers during the 1990s, when he created a small garden with native wildflowers and began photographing them using a digital camera. As his knowledge and skills improved, he created the Illinois Wildflowers website in 2002 and has been expanding it ever since.

John is a content partner of the Encyclopedia of Life, where both the text and photographs of his website have been published, and he is a member of local environmental groups, including Grand Prairie Friends, Champaign County Audubon Society, and Natural Areas Study Group.

In addition to allowing his botanical photographs to be used in this website John has contributed more than a thousand excellent plant descriptions to the free Wildflower Identification apps that we have produced.

Keir Morse is a professional field botanist with a BS in Biology from Northland College and a MS in Biology from Southern Oregon University. Currently Keir is a PhD student at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden studying the taxonomy of the genus Malacothamnus. Keir has worked in natural areas across the United States and in New Zealand sometimes engaging in environmental consulting and doing rare plant surveys.

Since the year 2000, he has posted more than 35,000 botanical photos to CalPhotos to help himself and others with plant identification. Because of the quality of Keir's photos, the vast number of species that he has photographed and the large number of species in the areas where he has photographed, Keir has contributed more photos to this website than any other person.

Tom A. Ranker is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has many accademic interest including the origin and evolution of the flora of the Hawaiian Islands. He has been president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the Botanical Sociey of America.

Tom has helped with this website in two ways. He gave us permission to use photos from his Flickr site. For many fern species his photo was the only photo we could use. The other way Tom helped is thru his work with the Consortium of Pacific Herbaria website. It is thru herbarium collection records that this website knows where plants can be found.

Richard Spellenberg is Professor Emeritus of Biology at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He obtained a doctoral degree in botany from the University of Washington in 1968, after which he moved to N.M.S.U. where he has taught since.

Richard has authored or edited a number of books on botany including Sonoran Desert Wildflowers, Trees of Western North America and The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region.

Richard has posted over 4,000 botanical images on CalPhotos and we are thankful to be able to use many of them in this website.

Since 1997, Forest & Kim Starr have provided botanical, entomological, and faunal surveys in support of planning, permitting, research and management efforrs in the state of Hawaii. As they work they also post photos on Flickr and now have a phenomenal collection of 168,000 images.

Forest & Kim's Flickr photos are licensed with a Creative Commons license allowing anyone to use them with attribution. Although their photos are taken in Hawaii many of the species have been introduced and can also be found in the more tropical areas of the United States. We appreciate both using their photos in this website and the ability to make links to their photo site.

Keoki & Yuko Stender made the Marinelife Photography website of photos and descriptions of Hawaiian fish, corals, marine aminals, seaweed and birds. The website also includes most Hawaiian plants. This collection is vast with excellent photos and easy-to-understand-descriptions. They allow their photos to be used in this website for which we are very grateful.

George 'Keoki' Stender teaches underwater photography, scuba repair and marine life identification. He owns and runs the Keoki's Scuba repair service, leads snorkeling trips and sells stock photography.

Yuko Okano Stender has experience as an Assistant Dolphin Trainer and Bilingual Interpreter at Sea Life Park in Waimanalo, O'ahu, Finfish Aquaculture technician at the Oceanic Institute, and Environmental Lab technician and Educator with Rapture Marine Expeditions,Waikiki Aquarium, Marine Option Program, and 'Alu Like. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

When Eric White was a Wilderness Ranger on Mt. Shasta he contributed observations and photographs to both the Botany and Wildlife departments of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. He now works for the National Ocean Service/NOAA. His interests include evolutionary biology and serpentine ecology. He is focused on the endemic plants of Mt. Eddy, California, and the endemic plants and animals of the Hawaiian islands.

Eric has contributed over 1,500 photos to CalPhotos. Many of these photos are of plants and animals in Hawaii. Because Eric lisences his photos with a Creative Commons lisence he allows them to be used in this website. Thank you, Eric, for your help.

Tony Valois, while working at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, documented virtually every plant species in the Recreation Area and developed the award winning Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area website. This information is also available as an iPhone app.

Tony has documented over 1,200 species with over 7,000 botanical images. Many of Tony's photos are used on this website.

More than a One Hundred and Fifty Image Authors have contributed to this website, so many that they can not all be listed here. But every one of them is appreciated. Most often they have posted their photos with a Creative Commons license. Some have made their photos public domain. Others have given us their permission to use their photos.

You can see their names and the number of photos that have been contributed on the Image Authors page. Thank you for taking great botanical photos, for identifying the species, for posting your photos on the web and for giving us permission to use them.

Thousands and thousands of Botanical Plant Collectors, over the last hundred years, have collected millions of plant specimens that are now archived in herbaria. Each collection is verified, then pressed and dried and catalogued. Other people have converted these collections into digital records which we use to deduce where and when species can be found. We use over ten million of these collection records.

The search by location, elevation and time of year used in this website is only possible because of the great amount of work done by the botanical plant collectors and the herbarium staff. The many herbaria involved in this work can be seen at this Attribution and Copyright link. Thank you, collectors and herbarium staff, for the work that you do.