Flora of North America

The Flora of North America North of Mexico on the flora of North America is a multi-volume work, which will appear continuously since 1993. The publisher is the Flora of North America Editorial Committee.

The complete work will include 30 volumes, 2011 are already 16 volumes published. More than 800 authors have contributed knowledge of all plants north of Mexico, including St. Pierre and Miquelon and Greenland together. It is used a webgestütze work platform, the FNA Internet Information Service ( FNA IIS). Several plant families are per band. In addition to the printed version of all the information word for word on the Internet. The project, once completed, more than 20,000 vascular plants and mosses have cataloged, representing about 7% of the total number of species in the world.

Project history

As early as 1964 saw North American botanists, partly inspired by the announcement that Volume 1 of Flora Europaea should be published shortly, the need for a comprehensive botanical project for North America. In August 1964, the Council of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists ( ASPT ) appointed a committee to examine the feasibility of a Flora of North America. Chaired by Robert Folger Thorne, the committee of about 25 interested botanists met in May 1966 in Washington, DC and came to the conclusion that the creation of the Flora of North America would be desirable and feasible. The response to Thorne's request for many other botanists was positively involved in the project.

After six years of planning, the project should be started in the autumn of 1972. The National Science Foundation ( NSF), however, made ​​their support of the willingness of the Smithsonian Institution funding from year to increase to year dependent. After an examination of the Smithsonian Institution decided that it was not prepared to give such a guarantee, unless the Congress, in turn, would guarantee to support the institution each year. Then pulled the National Science Foundation withdrew their support and the project was suspended in the summer of 1973. Attempts to revive the project again, were not successful.

In the spring of 1982, 22 botanists from across the United States and Canada met at the Missouri Botanical Garden is a proposal of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the Carnegie Museum of the creation of the Flora of North America to advise. In the same year, the Canadian Botanical Association / L'Association Botanique du Canada adopted a resolution in support of the project. At its Annual Meeting in August 1983, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists adopted a resolution and reiterated their commitment to the creation of such a work. After 1983-1987 came to more third-party funds, the project was supported unconditionally by the participating institutions.

Content

For each plant species, various data are collected and compared and complemented by an international team with existing literature and herbaria. In this example, the following information is collected:

  • Scientific and common name
  • Categorical classification
  • Characteristics and identification keys
  • Distribution maps
  • Illustrations and Photos
  • Chromosome numbers
  • Phenology
  • Usability, for example in medicine or as a Crop
  • Toxicity

Published volumes

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 1: Introduction. Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-505713-9.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 2: pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-508242-7.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 3: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. Oxford University Press, New York et al 1997, ISBN 0-19-511246-6.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 4: Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, part 1 Oxford University Press, New York, among others 2003, ISBN 0-19-517389-9.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 5: Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, 2 Oxford University Press, New York part, inter alia, 2005, ISBN 0-19-522211-3.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York et al 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-531822-7.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 8: Paeoniaceae to Ericaceae. Oxford University Press, New York et al 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-534026-6.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: unranked ( in part): Asteraceae, 1 Oxford University Press, New York part, inter alia, 2006, ISBN 0-19-530563-9.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: unranked ( in part): Asteraceae, 2 Oxford University Press, New York part, inter alia, 2006, ISBN 0-19-530564-7.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: unranked ( in part): Asteraceae, part 3 Oxford University Press, New York, among others 2006, ISBN 0-19-530565-5.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 22: Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae ( in part), and Zingiberidae. Oxford University Press, New York et al 2000, ISBN 0-19-513729-9.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 23: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae ( in part): Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York et al 2002, ISBN 0-19-515207-7.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 24: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae ( in part): Poaceae (part 1). Oxford University Press, New York et al 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-531071-9.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 25: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae ( in part): Poaceae (part 2). Oxford University Press, New York et al 2003, ISBN 0-19-516748-1.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 26: Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales. Oxford University Press, New York et al 2002, ISBN 0-19-515208-5.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 27: Bryophyta, Part 1, Oxford University Press, New York, among others 2007, ISBN 0-19-531823-4
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