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Steps to plant ID...

From an unpublished document by George Staples, 2006....

Plant identification process (use this with the Plant ID resources):

1. Sight recognition
a. Either you or a colleague knows the species on sight.
b. The species resembles something you know, allowing an educated guess as to a genus of family.
c. If you don’t recognize the family, try online interactive keys. Many dichotomous family keys are cumbersome.
2. Check your educated guess:
a. Family level- make sure specimen matches a descripti… Continue

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 3:15pm —

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OED publications...

Check out some of the naturalizing plant records from OED:

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op96.pdf

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op100.pdf

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 3:01pm —

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Resources for Plant ID

In a typical workday, Alex and I end up doing quite a bit of plant identification. For this, we often turn to the plant specimens available at the Bishop Museum's Herbarium Pacificum. In addition to the herbarium, however, there are a number of online resources available that can often get you to where you need to be with a plant ID. Here are some of the resources we use:

• Family identification:
o Online interactive keys:
http://www.kew.org/herbarium/keys/fm/key.html
http://www.colby.edu/info.… Continue

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 2:15pm —

 
 
 

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