I'm a computer geek by trade, starting out in the mainframe world when the IBM 360 systems were first announced. Fast-forward nearly 35 years to 2004 when I needed a way to track and quickly reference the wildflowers I had started trying to identify from my recently-renewed interest in photography. I created a small database with some basic information and a photograph, registered "USWildflowers.com", and built a few PHP/MySQL pages to maintain and access that database.

That's where this website stood until 2009. Events of early that year - the "discovery" of a fantastic wildflower site nearby (The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain), acquisition of a decent digital camera, and a desire to start implementing a few changes to the website that had been stewing in my mind - have led to the current state, which is probably a bit different from the current state a week ago.

I've added a Blog - "Wildflower Discovery Journal" I call it - where I publish wildflower articles and photographs. The number of species in the database has increased from about 75 at the end of 2008 to 339 now. The site now includes wildflower reference information - websites and books - on a state-by-state basis, and the format and content of the "wildflower detail" pages has been significantly enhanced from when the site contained info on 75 wildflower species.

You can't possibly enjoy this site as much as I've enjoyed building it, and photographing and studying the wildflowers presented here, but I do hope you find USWildflowers.com enjoyable and informative.

Yellow Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis)
One of January's Most Popular Native Species

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