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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Friends of the Ahart Herbarium
2026 California Native Plant Photo Contest

2026 Photo Contest Gallery

Fritillaria biflora, Santa Rosa Plateau

Lupinus stiversii in the Feather River Canyon

April Showers Bring Calypso Flowers

Blazing Star along the Trinity River

Leptosiphon grandiflorus var. "Dylanae"

Monterey Indian Paintbrush

The mouth of Coyote Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, February 2026. Unusual rains brought unusual early blooms, a waltz of Abronia villosa alongside Oenothera deltoides dancing in the sunset.

Three Little Long-horned Bee Butts in Harvest Brodiaea

On Mount Diablo: Calochortus venustus

Tiburon Mariposa Lily

Desert candle and the Sun

Early Bloomer (Woolypod Milkweed)

Eucalyptus Blossom

California Hairstreak dining inside of a Calochortus luteus in late spring in Upper Bidwell Park.

Teddybear Cholla

Twisted Corollas

Intertidal green spongy cushion (Codium setchellii) surrounded by red seaweeds

Calochortus albus - Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

Cycladenia humilis in Carr fire burn scar 2022

Diplacus rupicola - Echo Cyn, Death Valley NP

Spring time in Northern California

Between Sky and Bloom

Love in Anzo Borrego

Calochortus venustus, Hungry Valley SVRA

Penstemon Dreams- Concow, CA

Cloudy Day in California

Blue Dicks-Dipterostemon capitatus In A Field Of Poppies

White mountain heather (Cassiope mertensiana) growing from granite wall near Twin Lakes, Desolation Wilderness.

Pipevine and Twining Snake Lily at Dye Creek Preserve 4.4.26

Clarkia concinna

Snow Plant in the Desolation Wilderness

Quercus garryana var. semota

Clarkia gracilis ssp. albicaulis

“And still, with help, I become what the light is calling me to be.”

Triantha occidentalis at Mount Shasta

Ribes roezlii, Sierra National Forest

Parking lot wildflowers

Darlingtonia californica

Arctomecon merriami in Death Valley National Park

The phantom of the forest

Woolly sunflower and crab spider

Fritillaria pluriflora - Adobe Lily (Butte County)

Annual Checkerbloom

While the forest recovers above ground, Sarcodes sanguinea (Snow plant) has been plotting below it- rising from ash and pine needle, unbothered by darkness, finding another way. Lassen National Forest.