Help us fill in the gaps! First Flowers seeks to obtain the first date of flowering for plants in the Santa Monica Mountains of California. We are interested in open flowers for all species, no matter what time of the year. Is it flowering? We want to know!
Not sure what it is? Use the SMM WildFlowers iphone app developed by NPS Vegetation Ecologist Anthony Valois or visit the ...more ↓
Help us fill in the gaps! First Flowers seeks to obtain the first date of flowering for plants in the Santa Monica Mountains of California. We are interested in open flowers for all species, no matter what time of the year. Is it flowering? We want to know!
Not sure what it is? Use the SMM WildFlowers iphone app developed by NPS Vegetation Ecologist Anthony Valois or visit the website at www.smmflowers.org for the online version.
Since 2011, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has been studying how plants respond to climate change by observing their phenology. Phenology is the study of seasonal life cycle events such as leaf out and flowering in plants, emergence of insects and migration of birds and other animals.
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First Flowers of the Santa Monica Mountains
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created this project on March 21, 2014
