This is a website dedicated to the plant life, the flora, of the Baja California states of Mexico and related islands. (Read a website overview.)
In 2009, we expanded the scope of the site by including specimen data from the Baja California collections of herbaria other than the San Diego Natural History Museum. The specimen database search on this site now includes more than 60,000 specimens from six herbaria including the the two major institutions of Baja California and Baja California Sur.
The museum's herbarium includes 4129 voucher specimens from Baja California. Digital images of the specimen sheets, funded by the Wallace Research Foundation, are presented on the web site. On 7 July 2007, 335 photographs of specimens from the Rancho Santa Ana (RSA) and Pomona College (POM) collections were added to the web site. On 14 November 2007, 404 photographs of specimens from the California Academy of Science which includes the Dudley Herbarium, and the Jepson and University Herbaria of UC Berkeley were added to the web site. One hundred and sixty seven additional from RSA and POM were added 18 April 2008. In February 2010 we added 392 photo vouchers from the herbarium of Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas de Noroeste (HCIB), La Paz, BCS. In June 2010, twenty more photo vouchers from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, (BCMEX), Ensenada, BC were added. There are now 4657 voucher specimen sheet views available on this site.
The Botany Dept. of the San Diego Natural History Museum has a collection of over 40,000 35mm slides of the plants of Baja California. A project to digitize these slides is underway, funded by the Longino family of Tucson Arizona. Additionally, we continue to add photographs from Dr. Rebman's expeditions into the Baja peninsula. As of 1 June, 2010, 20,035 of these photographs are available at this site.