I just got a link to a great resource for identifying plants, fossils, animals, and many other things. The site is CalPhotos. It’s ran by Cal State Berkeley. It contains thousands of photos of plants, animals, fossils, fungi, habitats, and much more. By far the biggest collection is the plants and animals collection. There are over 70,000 images in the plants-annuals/perennial collection itself. The whole collection can be searched using an advanced search that let’s you define your search in many different ways.

I was looking for my unidentified flower from the last post on there. I now know that the flower is a violet. So I chose plants-annuals/perennial for the type of photo and then chose viola for the scientific name and 544 images came up. I went through the first 12 pages or so and came up with two possibilities for the flower. I will go through the more picture later and see if anything else looks close.

Thanks to John Wall on the CalPhoto Group for pointing me to this site.