![]() To search the list by a host plant's common name, enter F and type the common name. This list is alphabetized by plants' scientific names to keep related plant species together. If you want a visual guide showing all the scientifically described galls iNaturalist members have found in California, just pull up the species list from the Galls of California project. This somewhat idiosyncratic list was begun in mid-2020 to complement, rather than replace, Ron Russo's impressive, 2006 "Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and Other Western States." Accordingly, some galls covered in that book, which was succeeded in April 2021 by Russo's Plant Galls of the Western United States, have been intentionally omitted, out of a sense of indebtedness to the person who has done so much to advance our knowledge of gall-inducing species in this part of the world. For oak gall ID, I recommend perusing Joyce Gross's excellent photo-guide and checking the entry California Oak Galls in this journal to see which oaks host which galls and pick up ID pointers for a few of the oak galls.Ī few incompletely described species that have been identified to the genus level are included here too, but California has a lot of galls that remain undescribed. You'll find some oak, fungus, mistletoe, and bacteria galls listed, but the coverage is spotty. This slowly growing list of nearly 250 plant galls includes all those California gall inducers that had at least 8 observations in iNaturalist's Galls of California project in August 2020 except for oak galls and galls caused by fungi, mistletoes, or bacteria. ![]()
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