Unknown Plants under Our Noses
How much backyard botany remains to be discovered?
Even though the United States and Canada have been scoured by plant hunters, some taxonomists estimate that hundreds of novelties still await discovery.
Ertter, B. In press. Floristic surprises in North America north of Mexico (Our unknown planet: Recent discoveries and the future, Symposium Proceedings). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Hartman, R.L., and B.E. Nelson. 1998. Taxonomic novelties from North America north of Mexico: A 20-year vascular pant diversity baseline. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press.
Further Readings:
Tangley, L. 1998. A flowering of finds for American botanists. U.S. News & World Report. (November):64.
Sources:
Barbara Ertter
University of California, Berkeley
Jepson Herbaria
1001 Valley Life Sciences Building 2465
Berkeley, CA 94720-2465Ronald L. Hartman
University of Wyoming
Department of Botany
Rocky Mountain Herbarium
Laramie, WY 82071-3165James D. Morefield
1550 East College Parkway
Suite 145
Carson City, NV 89706-7921James L. Reveal
University of Maryland, College Park
Norton-Brown Herbarium
H.J. Patterson Hall
College Park, MD 20742-5815James Shevock
National Park Service
Pacific West Region
600 Harrison Street
Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94107Bruce Stein
Nature Conservancy
4245 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 1, January 2, 1999, p. 8. Copyright © 1999 by Science Service.
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