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Re: Plants data base

At 10:08 AM 7/22/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi, fellow Medits
>What are your favourite data base on the net for plants? I know that the
>ideal one, both complete and fast (sometimes I spend literally hours surfing
>here and there in search of information) probably does not exist yet, but it
>would be interesting to have a handy list of the ones you find most
>satisfying and rewarding. If some of you could post his/her favourite
>locations, I would be really grateful. How else could I pass the burning hot
>hours between dusk and dawn, when the air gets a little cooler and it
>becomes possible to garden? (Go to the beach, someone could suggest, but you
>all understand it is not a real option for a mono-maniac obsessive gardener)
>Thanks,
>Alessandra

Alessandra:

If you have an interest in the flora of North America, check out the
following URL:  http://www.ledlie.com/kartes3.html

This page from Patricia Ledlie Bookseller dsecribes a software product which
should become available in the future on the Web.  I believe it is available
for purchase right now.

This is a quote from the first paragraph of the web page:

<<From the laboratory of the Biota of North America Program of the North
Carolina Botanical Garden, in collaboration with the Jepson Herbarium of the
University of California at Berkeley, comes the most comprehensive floristic
synthesis ever assembled for the North American vascular flora. This
monumental work, which distills nearly 300 years of North American vascular
plant systematic research into a single functional package, provides the
most authoritative source for plant nomenclature, taxonomy, geography,
morphology and other specialized information for the more than 30,000 native
and naturalized plant taxa (or 8% of the world's flora) that occur north of
the U.S./Mexican border. The work builds upon Dr. John T. Kartesz's 1994
Timber Press publication A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of
the United States, Canada, and Greenland, by assessing all known plant
families, genera, species, subspecies, varieties, hybrids and their
associated synonyms found within the area treated (nearly 80,000 names). >>

Rich Dufresne
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