Michael Hough, botanist and lecturer at SUNY Cortland, has an interesting blog about the flora of Central New York and a website on the flora of the Northeast. To see the blog CLICK HERE and to see the flora website CLICK HERE. The links are also posted on our links list. Michael has a B.S. and M.S. from SUNY ESF and is also compiling a list of the flora of Cortland County. It’s nice to see such great flora work going on in the central part of the state.
This is another great Carex reference for New York with extensive illustrations, keys, comparison tables, and descriptions for each species. It was written by Dr. Lisa A. Standley, and has been published by the New England Botanical Club. To purchase, send a check for $26.00 payable to the New England Botanical Club to: Lisa Standley, VHB, 101 Walnut Street, Watertown MA 02472.
The website for the NY Natural Heritage Program Conservation Guides on rare species was hacked for use as a spam computer and the guides are temporarily offline as the situation is fixed. They hope to get them back online soon.
Here is a great resource for native plants in the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City areas. To see their web site CLICK HERE.
This is a website which displays maps for hardiness zones and range maps for selected plants. Unfortunately they don’t have any information about who they are and what information they use to produce their maps. If anyone can find more information about this website please post a comment. – Steve Young
CLICK HERE to see the website.
From their website: The Nature Conservancy’s Eastern Conservation Science office, with funding from the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, is pleased to release a benchmark report summarizing the results of a comprehensive three-year assessment of animal species and natural habitats across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region.
In an effort to evaluate the gains of a century of conservation and take the pulse of the natural world, scientists synthesized information from over 30 sources, including State Natural Heritage Programs, US Forest Inventory and Analysis, the Breeding Bird Survey, State Wildlife Action Plans and the Conservancy’s Regional Science Center.
Based on the recommendations of the Northeast Performance and Indicator Framework, this technical report evaluates key indicators for six natural habitats: forest, wetlands, rivers and stream, unique habitats, lakes and ponds and animal species of concern. For the report CLICK HERE.
When will there be a Northeast Association of Botanical Agencies to fund the same studies on plant species of concern?
The Cultural Landscape Foundation presents: Every Tree Tells a Story featuring extraordinary trees and tree groupings at twelve sites around the country and Puerto Rico. The show includes a history of the elms of East Hampton, New York. For the website CLICK HERE.
Wayne Armstrong from Palomar College has assembled a very information-rich website on the taxonomy of the Lemnaceae. There are lots of photos and keys to use to key out this sometimes difficult group. To access the website CLICK HERE.
Here is an example of a photo page for Lemna minor
The New York Natural Program recently posted 21 new rare plant guides on their guides website. Most of these are rare plants that might occur along roadsides on the island. The list is below. If you would like to access the site CLICK HERE. In the next year many more plants will be posted as they are completed.
Cenchrus tribuloides Dune Sandspur
Crocanthemum dumosum Bushy Rockrose
Desmodium ciliare Little-leaf Tick-trefoil
Digitaria filiformis Slender Crabgrass
Diospyros virginiana Persimmon
Eupatorium album var. subvenosum Trinerved White Boneset
Euphorbia ipecacuanhae American Ipecac
Ipomoea pandurata Wild Potato-vine
Linum intercursum Sandplain Wild Flax
Linum sulcatum Yellow Wild Flax
Oenothera oakesiana Oake’s Evening Primrose
Paspalum laeve Field Beadgrass
Plantago maritima var. juncoides Seaside Plantain
Platanthera ciliaris Orange Fringed Orchid
Platanthera cristata Crested Fringed Orchid
Quercus phellos Willow Oak
Scleria minor Slender Nutrush
Symphyotrichum concolor var. concolor Silvery Aster
Tripsacum dactyloides Northern Gamma Grass
Viburnum dentatum var. venosum Southern Arrowwood
Viola brittoniana Coast Violet
CLICK HERE to read and article and view drawings by Marielle Anzelone and Wendy Hollender about the plants that once grew in New York City but are now gone.
One of the plants that has not been seen in years is white trillium, Trillium grandiflorum. Photo Steve Young.
New York Flora Association Blog 