Beautiful and informative Native Plant brochures
Attracting pollinators with attractive natives:
- NEW 2021! An Illustrated list of Local Butterflies and their hosts
- Lepidoptera Larval Uses of Plants, San Francisco
- Local Butterflies and Their Host Plants and Habitats
- NEW 2021! Beekeeping for Native Bumble Bees
- Hummingbird Plants for San Francisco
Edible and Medicinal natives:
Gardening with Natives brochures:
- NEW 2021! Shade Plants for San Francisco Gardens
- NEW 2021! Native Plant container gardening in San Francisco
- NEW 2021! Drought tolerant plants of San Francisco
- Sidewalk Planting Guide CNPS-YB
- Native Plants For Green Infrastructure Projects
- Bioswales rain gardens gray water systems aquifer recharge
- Long Blooming San Francisco Native Plants
- Colorful year Around San Francisco Native Plants
- San Francisco Spring Annual Wildflowers
- Landscape Design Softscape with Mostly San Francisco Native Plants
- Native Planting guide for SF and northern San Mateo counties
- Native Plant Suppliers in SF area
Plant lists for San Francisco plant communities
Biodiversity inventory tools
Biodiversity-related resources and lists:
- Calscape
- Calflora
- SF Plant Finder (includes non-natives, exotics)
- Mike Wood's “Locally Significant Plants of San Francisco”
- San Francisco 2014 Rare Plant Summary
- Annotated Checklist of vascular plants of SF's Natural Areas 2014
- Plant ID
- Native plants that supply pollen for specialist bees
SF and area policy resources
Other Urban Municipalities' Plans for Tackling Biodiversity Loss:
California:
Integrating Nature into the Urban Landscape: H.T. Harvey
Making Nature's City: SFEI
Portola Valley Sustainability Plan
Re-Oaking Silicon Valley: SFEI
Southern California MET joins other water districts, have a plan
The Conservation Lands Network 2.0
Canada:
Vancouver Biodiversity Strategy One of our favorites!
ReWilding Vancouver
Biodiversity Strategy for Toronto
Chicago
Chicago Wilderness and Its Biodiversity Recovery Plan
Chicago Wilderness Priority Species
New York:
New York City Nature Goals 2050
Biodiversity Assessment for New York City
Native Species Planting Guide for New York City
Biodiversity in New York's State Park System
Join the BiodiversitySF Forum
One of the ideas presented at the event was the creation of a Biodiversity forum for our community to share future ideas, agency and community meeting details, information related to biodiversity, best practices, educational opportunities, and restoration and habitat change events or happenings.
In that spirit, we have created the BiodiversitySF forum.
Join in the conversation by submitting your email address below. If you know of others who were not at the event but have interest in topics related to the biodiversity of the San Francisco Bay Area, please share this link: