

Use the links below to learn more about botany and the vegetation and flora of British Columbia.
E-Flora BC covers plants, fungi and lichens. If you already know which species page you would like to view, type in the English common name or the scientific name in the boxes below and go directly to the atlas page.
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If you would prefer to browse a species list, go to our scrolling list of species.
Use our Advanced Search feature to call up atlas pages for species groups (e.g. fungi), all species in a family, or categories of species such as invasive or poisonous species, species of conservation concern (provincially red- or blue-listed species), or subgroups such as trees, shrubs or ferns and fern allies.
View a sample atlas page for yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis)
E-Flora Photo Collections
Visit the E-Flora photo gallery to view Michael Hawkes' collection of seaweed photos. There are more than 120 photos available, and more to come. Also visit Michael Beug's collection of fungi photos. More than 600 of Michael's photos are already posted, and more to come.
Featured Essays
Read about the biological diversity of BC in this essay
by Dick Cannings
Read Matt Fairbarns' essay on Garry Oak Ecosystems in BC.
Learn about citizen science and its growing role in biodiversity studies.
Report-a-Weed is a feature of the BC Ministry of Forests and Range Invasive Alien Plant Program. Be a citizen scientist and report new locations.
Visit the E-Flora photo gallery to browse through more than 12,000
photos of vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, lichens, fungi and algae.
Would you like to contribute photos to E-Flora BC? If so, please use the link below to register. After you receive your password you can upload your photos.
Read our guidelines and FAQs for photo submissions and photo use.