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This website is designed to be run on a wide screen monitor with a typical computer, where the multi-frame design works best. However, it can be used on a mobile device, but restrictions may apply because of screen size. If a computer is not available, it will work perfectly well as it is on a tablet (and perhaps on a phablet or mobile if the number of screen pixels is sufficient). The web-browser 'Puffin' should be installed, as that is the only web-browser for mobile devices that your Author has found which will allow independent scrolling of the frames (which the WildFlowerFinder website uses to such great effect). If your mobile web-browser scrolls the whole set of frames up at once (instead of each frame independently), then install and use Puffin, which will work fine (except that the last frame, the Subject Index, will be absent). Your Author does not know why this last frame is absent on Puffin (he has written and asked them thrice without response), but you dont really need the Subject Index on a mobile device when you can see the first three frames, and it allows the first 3 frames more screen-space. There is no mobile phone app for this website; it occupies many more MegaBytes than the maximum storage which can be allocated to any app. And, in any case, an app would not be updated with new items anywhere nearly as often as does this growing website. But you can view the critical index or menu pages separately on a mobile phone, small tablet or PDA from which the reader will be able to access possibly 99% of this website on a small screen. But the small screen sizes (both physically, and perhaps in pixel count) typical of mobile phones means that it may have to be used just one column at a time; a sub-set of the Wild Flower Finder website.
The choice of which menu or index to use depends on what you want to find. It is therefore best to save a selection of differing menus and indices on your mobile device. Such a selection can be stored as URLs on your mobile or PDA, which, when clicked upon, will open up in your default web-browser (such as Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Netsurf, Opera, Chrome, Puffin, Lynx, Mozilla, Netscape, Edge, Mosaic, Phoenix, Browse, Dolfin, UC browser, etc - although some web-browsers will be much better than others) and run the menu or index. Clicking on one of the items in the menu or index will take you to the page on the main website which you have selected.
One way of searching this wildflowerfinder website specifically is just to enter 'wildflowerfinder' (without spaces) as the first term of your google search, followed by a space, then the thing(s) you are searching for, providing you know what it is you are searching for... Other methods follow below.
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