LANDSCAPES

From the rocky coasts of the Pacific Northwest's mighty Pacific Ocean to the tops of the Canadian Rockies, through Florida Everglades' River of Grass and across the painted deserts of the American Southwest then over the Appalachian Mountains ... these galleries have a little bit of everything that the best of North American landscapes can offer.

WILD PLACES, UNCIVILIZED AND UNTAMED

BIRDS

When it comes to birds, North America is fantastically rich in native species diversity. While some species are found around the world, the vast majority are found only here and nowhere else.

OUR NATIVE WILDLIFE, WILD AND FREE

MAMMALS

We mammals have come a long way since the time of the dinosaurs. We've conquered the land, sea and air. North America has more than 740 species alive today.

FROM THE AMERICAN BISON TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD RACCOON

WILDFLOWERS

By far our largest collection of galleries, these image sets are arranged by both color and by taxonomic family for use as a casual identification tool or field guide, or for more thorough scientific research for deeper understanding.

OVER 90 GALLERIES OF NATIVE WILDFLOWERS

REPTILES

Long before the first dinosaur walked the earth, reptiles ruled the world. 65 million years after the last dinosaur drew its final breath,  North America's modern crocodiles, alligators, snakes, lizards, and turtles and tortoises are still keeping our native natural history alive!

315 MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING

AMPHIBIANS

Did you know the word "amphibian" means "two lives"? All amphibians start their lives in the underwater, but after they go through a series of metamorphosis stages to adulthood, most trade gills for lungs and live the rest of their lives out of the water.

FROGS, TOADS, NEWTS AND SALAMANDERS

BUTTERFLIES

North America is wildly rich in butterflies and moths. In the United States and Canada alone, there are roughly 750 species of butterflies and a whopping 11,000 species of moths! With careful and painstaking research, more new species are still being discovered all the time!

OUR NATIVE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

NATIVE ORCHIDS

One of the largest families in the plant kingdom with nearly 28 thousand species around the globe, orchids are also one of the most popular and most sought-after flowering plants in history. In Victorian times, entire foreign expeditions were sent around the world at great personal risk led by fearless (and often ruthless) orchid hunters to acquire the next new unknown exotic species from the most distant corner of the Earth. Luckily for us, North America is rich with unique native species found nowhere else in the world!

WILD IN THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

INVERTEBRATES

96% of all currently living animal life alive today are invertebrates. Included are all the insects, arachnids, worms, crabs, shellfish, starfish, corals, and more! One thing they all have in common? No backbone.

THE WORLD'S MOST DIVERSE ANIMAL BIOMASS

CARNIVOROUS PLANTS

Sometimes called insectivorous plants, these amazing plants have adapted to a life in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients, that they've gained the ability to grow by trapping their food with modified leaves. By taking root in a harsh habitat, they have eliminated most of their competition from other plants.

WHEN THE PLANTS DO THE KILLING...

MUSHROOMS & LICHENS

Without the enormous and nearly invisible world of fungi, there would be no forests or plants as we know them, no animals living, feeding and hunting in the forests and nothing to break down what organic matter is left. It's this wonderful (and often weird) group that keeps nutrients moving and cycling through our world's ecosystems.

THE KEY TO ALL LAND-BASED LIFE

OTHER PLANTS

This last and final collection of galleries include all the non-wildflower images such as our native trees, ferns, palms, fruits and berries, cacti, saprophytes, mosses, bromeliads and more!

MORE BOTANICAL GALLERIES AND IMAGES