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Are you still thumbing through hundreds of pictures to identify wild flowers? 
Plants that are related to each other have similar characteristics for identification. Botanists have simply looked for patterns in plants and created groups called "families" according to those patterns. In the northern latitudes where there are hard freezes during winter, there are only about 100 broad patterns representing tens of thousands of plant species. Once you identify the family your wild flower belongs to then you can still use your color picture book to identify the species, but now you only have to look through a few pictures to find a match, not hundreds. Want to learn to identify 45,000 plants today? 750 Wildflower Photos Botany in a Day covers most of the plant families across the northern latitudes. The photo gallery here currently includes mostly flowers from the Rocky Mountains, plus some from the west coast and desert southwest. We'll keep adding pictures as we take them. Please send me a note through our E-mail Contact Page if you find any mistakes. Thanks for helping out!
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