Plants

The Plant Management System and Aquatic Plant Management System software contains natural history information on over 120 plant species. This information can be accessed.at http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/aqua/cdroms.html

Chapter 7 of the "Wildlife Resources Management Manual" contains natural history information on 23 plant species of special interest to wildlife.

7.1.1 Smooth Brome (Bromus inermis) $image\el86_31_shg.gif$

7.1.2 Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) $image\el86_27_shg.gif$

7.1.3 Tall Wheatgrass (Agropyron elongatum) $image\el86_28_shg.gif$

7.1.4 Alkali Sacaton (Sporobolus airoides) $image\el86_37_shg.gif$

7.1.5 Browntop Millet (Panicum ramosum) $image\el89_12_shg.gif$

7.1.6 Japanese Millet (Echinochloa crusgalli var. frumentacea) $image\el89_13_shg.gif$

7.3.1 Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) $image\el86_30_shg.gif$

7.3.2 Bicolor Lespedeza (Lespedeza bicolor) $image\el86_23_shg.gif$

7.3.3 Partridge Pea (Cassia fasciculata) $image\el86_29_shg.gif$

7.3.4 Yellow Sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis) $image\el86_38_shg.gif$

7.3.5 White Clover (Trifolium repens) $image\el86_34_shg.gif$

7.4.1 Chufa (Cyperus esculentus) $image\el86_22_shg.gif$

7.4.2 Doveweeds (Croton spp.) $image\el86_24_shg.gif$

7.4.3 Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani) $image\el92_16_shg.gif$

7.5.1 Antelope Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) $image\el86_33_shg.gif$

7.5.2 Winterfat (Ceratiodes lanata) $image\el86_26_shg.gif$

7.5.3 Fourwing Saltbush (Atriplex canescens) $image\el86_39_shg.gif$

7.5.4 Common Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) $image\el86_36_shg.gif$

7.5.5 Bush Honeysuckles (Lonicera spp.) $image\el88_4_shg.gif$

7.5.7 American Elder (Sambucus canadensis) $image\el14_shg.gif$

7.5.8 American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) $image\el15_shg.gif$

7.5.9 Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) $image\el88_9_shg.gif$

7.5.10 Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria) $image\el16_shg.gif$

The U.S. Forest Service issued "Silvics of North America" in 1990, an update of an earlier version of Agriculture Handbook 654. The document is in two parts and available on the Web. Accounts for about 200 tree species have been written, with information on life history, habitat, and genetics.

Volume 1: Conifers

Volume 2: Hardwoods

The Web page for the entire document from the Forest Service is: http://willow.ncfes.umn.edu:80/silvics_manual/Table_of_contents.htm. An alternate page for the same information is: http://www.forestworld.com/forestry/outreach/silvics/silvics_home.html.

An enormous amount of information is available from the Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps3.html#united.This page opens at the United States, but bookmarks at the top of the page will go to North America and other parts of the world. Contents include species accounts (plus distribution maps, databases, checklists, keys, analyses, etc.) and are organized by countries, regions, and states.

Data for use in developing classifications may be available from searches at two Web sites. First is the "Internet Directory for Botany," which is described at http://www.botany.net/IDB/index.html. Searches are initiated from http://www.botany.net/IDB/info.html. Second is the "Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps" found at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html.