About

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Events

Workshops and Events

All Things Botanically Related Presentation Series

Awards

Jim Jokerst Field Botany Award

Distinguished Service Award

Photo Contest

About

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Events

Workshops and Events

All Things Botanically Related Presentation Series

Awards

Jim Jokerst Field Botany Award

Distinguished Service Award

Photo Contest

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Photo Contest
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021

2021 California Native Plant Photo Contest

2021 Contest Winners

Gaylene Kinzy.jpeg — Grand Prize

Gaylene Kinzy
Female metallic sweat bee in Penstemon palmeri

Clint Bettiga.jpg — Honorable Mention

Clint Bettiga
“Don't forget: beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.” - Paulo Coelho

Honorable Mention

Sharon Strauss
Erysimum menziesii

Check Out All of the Outstanding Entries

On a cold March day near Point Arena, we found Hosackia gracilis!

Dirca occidentalis in the East Bay in March

Wolf lichen and fir love

Layers of Layia

Unusual Eschscholzia californica

Woods, rocks, grass, and flowers

Erysimum menziesii

Western Houndstongue--Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 4/3/2021

California's largest oak, Quercus lobata, the Valley Oak

Before they were Giants

Bush poppy, Dendromecon ridiga, under a burned out manzanita now three years after the River fire in Mendocino and Lake Counties.

Bringing Life into Focus

Female metallic sweat bee in Penstemon palmeri

Root Colonization by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Mimulus guttatus

Spirit of the poppy

Portal to another dimension...

2021 Vernal Pool

"Don't forget: beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies." - Paulo Coelho

Asclepias californica Black Diamond Mine

Western Houndstongue--Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 4/3/2021

Blue oak woodland Tehachapi Mtns

Engelmann's hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii var. engelmannii) on the first day of spring

Table Mountain wildflowers, March 2021

Lupinus nipomensis, an endangered annual dune lupine flowering at one of its remaining extant populations.

"Growing in Granite" Granite buckwheat, Eriogonum lobbii, Buck's Lake Wilderness. 6/27/2020

Snow Plant at Sugar Pine State Park

Checker Lily (Fritillaria affinis) - a lovely February surprise

A Budding Botanist

Dicks Pass, Desolation Wilderness

Cushion Townsendia - White Mountains, CA

Sunny Spot on a Cloudy Day

Aristolochia californica

Fetid adder's tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii) blooms in the Sinkyone Wilderness in northern coastal California

Endangered Bakersfield Cactus in Full Bloom

Dutchman's pipevine (Aristolochia californica)

Purple sanicle in Sonoma County

After Fire - Flowers! April 23, 2011, Owens Peak Wilderness, Indian Wells Canyon, Southern Sierra Nevada mountains

Asclepias solanoana, serpentine milkweed; The Cedars, Sonoma County

Tufted Poppy Time

Trillium kurbayashii

Two Fritillaria purdyi plants chatting