The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Plant of the Week

Rocky Mountain juniper Juniperus scopulorum Sarg. Click on the photo for a full plant profile.

Spotlight

PLANTS Major Overhaul Exciting transformation of PLANTS includes a new distribution map to accommodate additional North American vascular plant coverage including Canada and Greenland, improved Native Status information, extensive nomenclature review and revision, and new borough distribution data for Alaska.

New Gymnosperm Key and Grass Keys for All 50 States New interactive keys are now available for all U.S. gymnosperm species, and all grass (Poaceae) species in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Links to PLANTS Profiles multiply the usefulness of these innovative tools.

Traditional Ecological Knowledge: New Technical Note Indigenous Uses, Management, and Restoration of Oaks in the Far Western United States, Technical Note TN.190.PM.2, is now available. For more than 9,000 years, native peoples in the West led lives enmeshed with the oaks that surrounded them. Learn how they used and managed oaks and oak ecosystems, and what is being done today.

Submit Your Digital Images Contribute your photos to PLANTS! We are looking for accurately identified submissions of 100 or more images, preferably with supporting information including date and location.

Web Site Modernization We are modernizing PLANTS to fit the new USDA Web standard, which is part of a broader USDA initiative called Web Site Development and Maintenance.

Last Modified: 05/05/2008