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Plants -- United States

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Desert Plants and Wildflowers

For those interested in the types of plants found in the desert ecosystem, this Web page from the online magazine DesertUSA.com will be a useful guide. Photos and descriptive features of several desert plants are provided in an alphabetical index or can be found through the online field guide organized by flower color. An interesting section also focuses on the types of adaptations that allow...

https://www.desertusa.com/flora.html
Flora of North America (FNA)

A binational collaboration of over 800 botanists and 30 institutions in the US and Canada, the FNA project is producing "a comprehensive set of taxonomic treatments for all North American plant species and infraspecific taxa" to be published online and in 30 printed volumes by Oxford University Press. FNA treatments include "accepted names, synonyms, bibliographic references, keys for...

http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1
North American Native Plant Society

The North American Native Plant Society (NANPS) is dedicated "to the study, conservation, cultivation and restoration of native plants." The NANPS website lists plant sources by region, and invites native plant growers to submit a listing for no charge. The site provides information about upcoming events across Canada and the United States; scholarship opportunities; related associations by...

https://nanps.org/
Northeast Wetland Flora: Field Office Guide to Plant Species

The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service's Northeast National Technical Center in Chester, Pennsylvania produced Northeast Wetland Flora: Field Office Guide to Plant Species. The guide contains black and white illustrations, full species descriptions (with color photographs, illustrations, and small distribution maps), illustrated glossaries, an alphabetical species list (provides common and...

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0719/ML071980102.pdf