A database of wild plants with a focus on ecology and biodiversity. Ecoregions, range maps, habitat and life cycles, native and invasive species.
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We redesigned our homepage to highlight new and recently-updated articles, including on plants, ecoregions, and ID/comparison guides. We've also improved sharing of thumbnail images to social media; read more here: bplant.org/blog/13 or just go to our homepage to see it!
Understanding plants' habitat preferences holds the key to just about any work involving plants, whether ecological restoration or other conservation work, gardening, or landscaping. Our latest blog post serves both as an introduction and reference: bplant.org/blog/27
Wow, we're on a roll, we just interlinked our site with @MDBiodiversity which is an unparallelled resource for the distribution of organisms (not just plants) in the state of Maryland. This site also addresses a key gap in USDA and BONAP data. 2,947 pages linked!
We just interlinked our site with the Missouri Plants website: missouriplants.com/
For all linked records, the page on our site will now include a link to the corresponding record on Missouri Plants. This website is a great resource for wild plants in Missouri.
Our latest blog post summarizes our successes of 2022 and goals for 2023. We've also published our 2022 financial statement. We got a ton done, also had some fundraising successes, but are still far from our mid-term financial goals: bplant.org/blog/26
We upgraded both the software and hardware on our server...our blog post shares a little bit about how these upgrades will help further our mission of preserving and restoring biodiversity: bplant.org/blog/19
These ecoregion-based plant range maps cover far more plants, communicate more information, and are more accurate than our first-generation maps. Our blog post explains what we did, how we did it, why, and where we're going: bplant.org/blog/18 #ecoregions #nativeplants
This species in an illustration of how complex the idea of "native" is. This species is native to parts of east-central North America, but it has been introduced to new areas outside its range as a garden plant, and it can establish in the wild: bplant.org/plant/8527
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Eutrochium purpureum prefers drier, shadier habitats than other Joe-Pye species, and does well in degraded habitats such as edges and small forest fragments. This plant is easy to grow in the garden and has great potential for ecological restoration: bplant.org/plant/787
The Common Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) is widely planted in gardens, but is becoming invasive in North America and is best not planted anywhere. Our article gives some control tips and explains this species ecology and life cycle: bplant.org/plant/1055
Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) is a widespread tree mostly of floodplains and riparian areas, and it's been severely threatened by the introduced emerald ash borer. But there is some hope that its weedy nature may help it survive and adapt: bplant.org/plant/124
Tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera) is the tallest deciduous tree in the eastern US; its showy flowers are often overlooked for being too high to see Our article highlights its ecology, including both its habitat and the wildlife it supports: bplant.org/plant/135
We added progress bars and legends to plant search results and state ecoregion pages, so you can better track our progress, and at a glance, see which articles are complete: bplant.org/blog/16
2020 may have been rough, but we still have a lot of great progress to report: more articles completed, a ton of new images, ecoregion articles completed for many more US states, a homepage redesign, and numerous small tweaks: bplant.org/blog/15
Chestnut oak, Quercus montana, is a dominant oak of forested ridgetops and other dry upland forests, mainly in the Appalachians. It can be identified by its rugged, blocky bark, thin acorn caps, and chestnut-like leaves that tend to have rounded lobe tips. bplant.org/plant/188
We just interlinked 160 of our plant articles with the Silvics of North America Manual, published by the @forestservice srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/misc/ag… -- an outstanding resource which you can now access easily, species-by-species from links on each of our plant pages!
We have begun interlinking our plant pages with other websites and databases! We hope this feature will both help people more easily research plants, and help them to discover the wealth of informational resources out there: bplant.org/blog/14
Blackjack Oak (Quercus marilandica) vs. Water Oak (Quercus nigra). These oaks are frequently misidentified by the inexperienced, as both have "non-oaklike" leaves, but they are super easy to distinguish if you know what to look for: bplant.org/compare/186-190
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Before European colonization, much of the Chicago region was maintained by Native Americans as open oak savanna, using controlled burns. Although most of the region has been urbanized and heavily altered, a few of these savannas still exist in preserves: bplant.org/region/743
