About Calscape

CNPS created Calscape to make it easier for more people to find and grow beautiful native plant gardens. Today, Calscape enjoys more than a million visits a year, making it California’s top native plant website!

A project of the California Native Plant Society

The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a leading voice in native plant science, conservation, and advocacy, making it one of the foremost native plant organizations in the world. CNPS is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to protecting California native plants and their natural habitats, today and into the future, through science, education, stewardship, gardening, and advocacy.

CNPS created Calscape to make it easier for more people to find and grow beautiful native plant gardens. Today, Calscape enjoys more than a million visits a year, making it California’s top native plant website!

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It takes all of us!

Calscape is a partnership of home gardeners, volunteers, industry professionals, universities, and funders working together to transform California landscaping and help restore our connection to nature. Whoever you are, there's a way to join the movement!

Gardeners

Create a Calscape account today to design your garden and to share with others.

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Industry

Nurseries and growers, expand your customer base through Calscape.

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Generous supporters

Our funders make the Calscape vision possible.

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Landscape professionals

Inspire others with your native plant garden designs and installations.

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Chapters and volunteers

Help us make Calscape the best it can be by getting involved.

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Universities and researchers

Ongoing research and academic partnership ensure the latest science on Calscape.

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With special thanks to

The Jepson Flora Project

The Jepson Herbarium at UC Berkeley collaborates closely with Calscape in several ways:

Calscape adopts the taxonomy of the Jepson eFlora, the authoritative floristic reference for the state of California
The Jepson eFlora provides distributional information that Calscape uses to model potential plant ranges
Horticultural information for native plants that was published in the 1993 Jepson Manual, was shared with Calscape for inclusion in its database

We are also grateful for their support in sharing herbarium specimen data from the Consortium of California Herbaria and photos from the CalPhotos database with Calscape.

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Calscape creators and contributors

A heartfelt thanks to everyone who makes Calscape possible. We extend our special gratitude to Dennis Mudd-the original Calscape creator, and the numerous volunteers who have contributed significantly to the development of our horticulture database.

and the Calscape committee

The Calscape Commitee is comprised of Calscape users, landscape and nursery professionals, technology experts, and other native plant experts. The committee was instrumental in the launch of the new Calscape and will focus on new features, data updates, and other improvements going forward. If you'd like to be considered for the committee, please email the Calscape team.

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Calscape is the engine that drives California's native gardening movement, and your donation, no matter the size, makes it possible.

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