learn how to see plants

Deepen your understanding of the flora in your region.

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A hillside garden composed from the Canyon Woodland palette: oaks and ferns in shade, a pink trumpet tree above
Observe

Train your eye to identify the plants around you.

Field guide

Learn about the plants that make your region unique.

The California field guide: plant families listed as lessons, each with ten questions
Plant profiles

Study the details of the plants you love.

A plant's page in the app: California poppy, with its photographs, description and where it grows
Plant lore

Unlock the story behind each plant, some by exploring, some by study.

The shoot sheet: plant lore unlocked, newest first, each with its family a tap away
Membership

Tools for landscape designers

Florophilia provides fast and easy ways to share your landscape designs with clients and collaborators.

  • Bloom calendars
  • CAD sections
  • nursery schedules
  • color profiles
  • layout sheets
  • planting books
  • water budgets
  • light requirements
Bloom calendar in flower fruit and seed
JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
A hand holding a phone showing the Florophilia field guide, in California chaparral
Bitesized botany

Short lessons in botany, checked against the world’s leading botanical institutions.

USDARoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical GardenRoyal Horticultural Society GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information FacilityLady Bird Johnson Wildflower CenterNOAASmithsonian Institution
Curate

Gather inspiration from more than 10,000 plant species across 12 North American ecoregions (+ Hawaiʻi).

California

Ecoregions of North America
N↑Pacific NWGreat BasinRocky MountainsMojaveSky IslandsChihuahuanGreat PlainsEastern WoodlandsNorthern ForestsCaliforniaEvergladesSonoranHawaiĘ»i

Photographs by the iNaturalist community · credits

Share

Draw what you see and share it with the Florophilia community.

A beginner's line drawing of a manzanita sprig
A brush study of toyon with red berries
A colorful study of ceanothus in bloom
A drawing of California poppies, shared by Marshall
Marshall
Eschscholzia californica
IsaLovely line work on the petals.
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A leaf resting on an open sketchbook while hands sketch the same leaf on a phone with a stylus, on a moss bed
Look & draw

Trace a plant from a photograph and learn through the process of observation.

Free

Every plant page, every region’s field guide, and the lessons. No account needed.

Membership · $39 a year

Save and share your palettes and drawings. Use every tool: identify, practice, bloom calendar, look and draw. Export for the studio: CAD blocks, planting schedules, water use calculations, light plans. Unlimited field guide practice.

Membership pays for the servers and keeps the app free of ads.

Florophilia is on the App Store.

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