Wildflowers of the Bay Area, a talk by Andrea Williams

When wildflower season in the Bay Area is upon us, even seasoned hikers and naturalists can get confused by the diversity of beautiful flowers in our area. To help you progress in your native wildflower knowledge, Andrea Williams, CNPS’ Director of Biodiversity Initiatives, provides an overview of the most common wildflowers in the Bay Area area. She goes over how to identify these flowers and shares interesting natural history details about each. She also shares some of the community science work CNPS is leading to protect our state’s amazing plant biodiversity.

Andrea Williams has two decades of experience in science-based public lands management: monitoring rare plants and plant communities, carrying out project compliance surveys, mapping and removing invasive plants and responding to landscape-level threats. She has worked in partnership to design indicators, metrics, status and trends for land health; lead volunteers in botanical inventories; improve the quality and quantity of data submitted to California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB); and teach plant identification, field methods and invasive plant management planning.