CNPLX is a growing collection.If you know of a nursery or horticultural website that refers to California native plant species by scientific name, you can contribute a link to that site. To add a new reference website to CNPLX, first start a session, then create a contributor account with a valid email address (or if you already have a contributor account, log into it).

The contributor account feaure makes it possible for nursery staff to add and maintain their own listings on CNPLX . However, some nursery listings have already been added by the editor. If you work for a nursery that is already listed, and would like to take over the maintenance of the listing, please write to us.

SEARCH for Plants. In a typical search, you enter some criteria, see a list of matching species, and click on the scientific name to get to the CNPLX species information page. At the bottom of the query page, however, there is a field called Name Linked to, which defaults to CNPLX. You can set the value of that field to one of the larger reference websites, like the Las Pilitas nursery. When you click on the scientific name on the matching page, you will go directly to the chosen site. Thus you can use CNPLX as a way of organizing access to these other sites.

• Output Format. If you want to take the data home and do something else entirely with it, the query page allows you to specify whether you want the results of your query as an HTML page (the usual way), as XML, or as plain text.

REPORT. On several pages that show lists of species, there is a REPORT link. REPORT means display the species list in a more elaborate way with photographs. When you first press REPORT, you will see it in the default format. Press REPORT FORMAT at the top of the page to customize the format.