Mapping Species Distributions

ALL ABOUT SPECIES SEARCHING

Common Clarkia (Clarkia rhomboidea), photo by Brent Miller

E-Flora BC has been developed so that you can search for and learn about plants, fungi and lichens in the province. We provide four ways to do this:

• through our Quick Search feature. This feature is found on the home page. If you know the name of the species you wish to find, then use this feature to go directly to the atlas page for a specific species. Or just type in the genus name, and you can call up all species in a genus.

• through our scrollng lists. We provide scrolling lists for species, genera and families. If you don't know plant names, then use the scolling lists to browse and call up atlas pages. In the list of family names, selecting for the family "Rosaceae", for example, will call up all atlas pages for species in that family.

• through our Advanced Search feature. This feature allows you to call up special groups, such as invasive species, red- or blue-listed species, trees of BC, orchids of BC. You can also use it to call up all species in a genus or in a family. Our Advanced Search feature is provided on all pages in E-Flora (see the menu at the top of this page).

• through our photo galleries. You can browse our photo galleries for each species group (vascular plants, fungi, lichens, algae, mosses, liverworts) and access our atlas pages directly from these galleries.

Advanced Search on E-Flora BC

Our Advanced Search feature is useful if you wish to look up information about a group of species. Use the Advanced Search page to call up atlas pages for the following groups:

• vascular plants, lichens, fungi, algae, mosses, liverworts/hornworts
• invasive species
• all alien species
• poisonous species
• red- or blue-listed species
• trees
• shrubs
• orchids
• ferns and fern allies
• carnivorous species

Search by Colour

One additional way to search on E-Flora is by colour. While we don't have flower colour data for all species in our database at this point, you can still search for species that have 'colour' in their name. So, for example, doing a search for 'blue' under common name will bring up all plants with 'blue' in their name, and that likely have blue flowers.

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