I'm Steve Sullivan and I made this Website. I collected the data, organized it and wrote the programs.

I obtained a BS degree in Math from Oregon State University before there was a computer science degree. Then I worked for Tektronix for 35 years as a programmer, circuit board designer and an integrated circuit designer. Now that I have retired, making wildflower identification websites and Apps has become my hobby. I also enjoy taking wildflower hikes with my wife, Yan, who enjoys photographing flowers with macro photography.

We formed Wildflower Search, an Oregon Not-for-profit Corporation that owns and maintains the PatagoniaWildflowers.org and WildflowerSearch.org websites and the Free Wildflower Identification apps.

Lucía Abello is a librarian by profession and a botanist by hobby. She is recognized for her great love of plants. In her Flickr gallery she has more than 7000 images of native flora of Chile.

It is common to find her hiking in the mountains of Chile and sharing about native plants with friends and with those who want to listen to talks that she delivers to the interested community. We appreciate her willingness to make her photos available to this website. Thank you, Lucia.

She is co-author of the books Edible wild plants from Chile and other parts of the world 1st. And 2nd. Ed., Traditional uses of the flora of Chile. Vol I. Native, and Climbing, Epiphytic and Parasitic Plants Native to Chile. Field Guide.

Zoya Akulova is a Russian botanist now living in California. She works as a botanist in an environmental consulting company. She has an amazing collection of over 18,000 botanical photos on the CalPhotos website including photos from all over the world.

Thanks you, Zoya, for using a Creative Commons license, allowing us to use your botanical photos in this website.

Marijn van den Brink enjoys climbing mountains, maintaining a rock garden and exploring the world. You can see his photos from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America on his website.

His website includes 6,500 photos from Chile and Argentina and more than half of these are really great photos of the plants of this region. Thank you, Marijn, for allowing your photos to be used in the PatagoniaWildflowers website.

Diego Cabral earned a Master's Degree in Wildlife Ecology. Recently, Diego collaborates with the Natural History Museum of San Rafael. For a hobby Diego has been taking pictures of plants and birds mostly in the Mendocina area of Arginetna. Many of Diego's botanical photos can be found in the Flora Mendocina Nativa website. Diego also wrote the plant descriptions for that website.

Thank you, Diego, for allowing your botanical photos to be used in this website.

Dick Culbert first became widely known as a mountaineer. He wrote two highly regarded climbing guides for the coastal ranges in British Columbia. After obtaining a PhD in geophysical engineering he worked in many places including South America. In addition to work he took photos of everything and put these photos on Flickr and in his website DixPix . Sadly, Dick recently past away.

All of his photos are in the public domain. His photo collection has been extensively used on other websites such as Wikipedia. We acknowledge his contribution to this website and give our thanks for his botanical photos of the Patagonia area.

Jason Hollinger was trained in physics and math and for nearly seven years was a programmer in the finance industry. Jason "retired" early to wander the earth learning about everything. Which resulted in many excellent botanical photos on Flickr and the development (with others) of two amazing websites. The Mushroom Observer allows people to post photos of mushroom and lichen and to obtain help identifying them. The Ways of Enlichenment contains photos of over 2,000 species of lichen.

Thank you, Jason, for making your botanical photographs available to everyone and for promoting botanical education.

Alain de Trenqualye Howard studied engineering in Santiago and worked as a computer programmer. As a hobby he started the Flora de Chile en su Habitat website which contains information on over 1,000 plant species found in Chile. His website continues to grow.

Alain allows his photos to be used in this website. Thank you, Alain, for your support.

Patricio Novoa is a forester and a botanical expert who specializes in native orchids, Bromeliacea, Calceolariacea, Loasa and Valerian. For 13 years he worked for the National Botanic Garden of Viña del Mar as head of the Department of Horticulture.

Patricio has 57 publications on botany and related sciences. He is author or co-author of 4 botany books. Patricio's Researchgate profile. Patricio is especially interested in looking for rare and threatened species. He has posted 5,000 botanical photos on Flickr under his name and many more for the National Botanic Garden. He licenses his photos thru the Creative Commons allowing us to use his photos. We appreciate Patricio's significant contribution to this website.

Michael G. Simpson is Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Diego State University where he is the Curator of the SDSU Herbarium. He has a special interest in plants that occur in North and South America, on either side of the neotropics. For this study he has visited Chile and Argentina several times.

Dr. Simpson has collected many of his photographs of South American plants into his Some Plants of Chile website. We are grateful that he allows these photos to be used in this website.

Italo Specogna is the author of the Flora Mendocina Nativa website which contains plant descriptions and botanical photographs of over 700 species that can be found in the Mendocina, Argentina area.

We appreciate Italo's permission to use his photos on this website.

Tony Valois, while working at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, documented virtually every plant species in the Recreation Area and developed the award winning Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area website. This information is also available as an iPhone app.

Tony has documented over 1,200 species with over 7,000 botanical images. Many of Tony's photos are used on this website.

Around Eight Hundred Image Authors have contributed to this website, so many that they can not all be listed here. But every one of them is appreciated. Most often they have posted their photos with a Creative Commons license. Some have made their photos public domain. Others have given us their permission to use their photos.

You can see their names and the number of photos that have been contributed on the Image Authors page. Thank you for taking great botanical photos, for identifying the species, for posting your photos on the web and for giving us permission to use them.

Thousands and thousands of Botanical Plant Collectors, over the last hundred years, have collected millions of plant specimens that are now archived in herbariums. Each collection is verified, then pressed and dried and catalogued. Other people have converted these collections into digital records which we use to deduce where and when species can be found. We use four hundred thousand of these collection records in this website.

The search by location, elevation and time of year used in this website is only possible because of the great amount of work done by the botanical plant collectors and the herbarium staff. The many herbariums involved in this work can be seen at this Attribution and Copyright link.