Nomenclatural and classification information used for the initial data ingestion into the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone was provided by The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013). The data resources used to build The Plant List were contributed by: African Plants Database (Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva and South African National Biodiversity Institute); GrassBase; The Global Compositae Checklist (International Compositae Alliance); The International Legume Database and Information Service; The International Organisation for Plant Information; International Plant Names Index (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria, and Australian National Herbarium); The iPlants Project (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, and New York Botanical Garden); Missouri Botanical Garden (Bryophyte Checklist, Checklist of Bolivia, Flora of China Checklist, Checklist of Ecuador, Flora Mesoamericana, Checklist of Panama, Checklist of Peru); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rosaceae), and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. See www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/#collaborators for further details.
The standardisation of plant names is a critical step in various fields of biology, including biodiversity, biogeography, and vegetation research. The WorldFlora R package (Kindt 2020) matches lists of plant names using the static copy of the World Flora Online (WFO) taxonomic backbone available here.
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Kindt, R. 2020. WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data. Applications in Plant Sciences 8( 9): e11388. [Open Access]
The United States Department of Agriculture have a plant database ( ) where you can download search results and checklists. Look at their download page. However, I think that you can only download text (no pics), and it mostly (only?) contain plants found in the US. I have not used the download functionality myself, so I do not know anything about flexibility or interface.
Associated code for the creation of the dataset can be found on GitHub. The bleeding-edge version of the database (which may contain substantial differences from the release you are viewing) is available on GitHub as well.
We are pleased to announce that the WUCOLS update process has now been completed! Funding for these upgrades was provided by the California Department of Water Resources. Here are some highlights of the changes to the WUCOLS database:
WUCOLS IV provides evaluations of the irrigation water needs for over 3,500 taxa (taxonomic plant groups) used in California landscapes. It is based on the observations and extensive field experience of thirty-six landscape horticulturists (see the section "Regional Committees") and provides guidance in the selection and care of landscape plants relative to their water needs.
The 4th edition (Costello, L.R. and K.S. Jones. 2014. WUCOLS IV: Water Use Classification of Landscape Species. California Center for Urban Horticulture, University of California, Davis. ) represents a substantial expansion in the number of plant evaluations. Over 1,500 entries have been added to the 3rd edition list, for a total of 3,546 entries. Essentially, the great majority of taxa available from wholesale nurseries in California are included.
If you are using the WUCOLS list for the first time, it is essential that you read the User Manual. The manual contains very important information regarding the evaluation process, categories of water needs, plant types, and climatic regions. It is necessary to know this information to use WUCOLS evaluations and the plant search tool appropriately. To access the User Manual, click on the tab and view specific topics.
EPPO Global Database is maintained by the Secretariat of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO). The aim of the database is to provide all pest-specific information that has been produced or collected by EPPO. The database contents are constantly being updated by the EPPO Secretariat.
The Database of Vascular Plants of Canada or VASCAN ( ) is a comprehensive and curated checklist of all vascular plants reported in Canada, Greenland (Denmark), and Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France). VASCAN was developed at the Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre and is maintained by a group of editors and contributors. For every core taxon in the checklist (species, subspecies, or variety), VASCAN provides the accepted scientific name, the accepted French and English vernacular names, and their synonyms/alternatives in Canada, as well as the distribution status (native, introduced, ephemeral, excluded, extirpated, doubtful or absent) of the plant for each province or territory, and the habit (tree, shrub, herb and/or vine) of the plant in Canada. For reported hybrids (nothotaxa or hybrid formulas) VASCAN also provides the hybrid parents, except if the parents of the hybrid do not occur in Canada. All taxa are linked to a classification. VASCAN refers to a source for all name, classification and distribution information. All data have been released to the public domain under a CC0 waiver and are available through Canadensys and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). VASCAN is a service to the scientific community and the general public, including administrations, companies, and non-governmental organizations.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
This checklist covers all vascular plants (Equisetopsida, Tracheophyta) reported in the area described in the section 'Geographic Coverage'. The core taxa considered are species, subspecies or varieties, and their hybrids. For these taxa, we provide synonyms, the accepted and alternative French and English vernacular names, and the habit (tree, shrub, herb and/or vine) of the plant in Canada. For reported hybrids (nothotaxa or hybrid formulas) we also indicate the hybrid parents, except if the parents of the hybrid do not occur in Canada. This core information is not provided for higher taxa, although the calculated distribution based on lower taxa can be consulted and downloaded from the VASCAN website ( ). All taxa are linked to a classification: Chase & Reveal (2009) for the higher classification, Christenhusz et al. (2011a) for lycophytes, Smith et al. (2006) for monilophytes (modified in Rothfells et al. 2012), Christenhusz et al. (2011b) for the gymnosperms, and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009) for flowering plants. At the generic level and below, the Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1993+) is the main source of classification, unless taxonomic literature more recent than the volume published for a given taxon provides a taxonomy more reflective of current data. The source used is indicated for each taxon in the dataset. The classification includes 16 ranks. They are, in hierarchical order: class, subclass, superorder, order, family, subfamily, tribe, subtribe, genus, subgenus, section, subsection, series, species, subspecies and variety. Varieties within subspecies are accepted, so quadrinomial names are present, but forms are not included.
Posted here for you to download is the first version of a database of the plants used in the Miniature Settings over the past 10 or so years at the Philadelphia Flower Show. The plants in the database came from the official lists that exhibitors submitted for judging as well as other miniature plants that could be used in these settings.
The images in this database are either photos taken by me or they are images culled from the web. If anyone objects to the use of an image that came from their website, I will remove it. I offer all my images (the ones in the first column) to anyone who would like to use them. I believe this sharing of information will make all our work easier and more interesting.
The information included the light needed, the water requirement, and the zone when growing outdoors. Unfortunately there is no consistent way that people describe these conditions and it leave a lot of questions: Is part shade the same as indoor bright light? What does average or medium water mean? Not all plants have an outdoor zone listed and finding them all will take some time. I will try to address these discrepancies in future versions but I think it is important just to get the first version of the list up now.
The file is large (82MB) so takes some time to download if you have a slow connection. You will need a PDF reader to view it (for Mac users that is Preview or Adobe Reader). You can use the zoom capabilities of the PDF viewer to zoom in on the photos which are generally good quality. They do not enlarge when you click them.
explore the taxonomic hierarchy embedded within The Plant List. You can work down the taxonomic hierarchy from Major Group (to find out which Families belong to each), to Family (to discover which Genera belong to each) or Genus (to see which Species occur in each). From within the taxonomic hierarchy you will be also able to move back up the tree so as to discover, for example, to which Family a particular Genus belongs. The Browse feature will only enable you to detect plant names that are considered to be Accepted (or correct).
You can locate a particular plant name contained within The Plant List by using the Search or Browse features. The Browse feature will only enable you to detect plant names that are considered to be Accepted (or correct) for a given species.
Accepted name pages and Unresolved name pages also provide links to additional information about these plants stored within online databases that are held and managed by other institutions and projects. 2ff7e9595c
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