Plant species names

[Adolf Ceska]

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Michael Ohl wrote:

> Plant species names given on (sometimes extremely small) labels
> ususally lack the author name. Is there any catalog or list of e.g.
> North American plant species available on the internet, which
> includes author names? For example, it was not possible for me yet to
> find the author name of the common Russian Thistle Salsola pestifer
> (pestifera? another problem to be solved) via internet search. I even
> don't know of European catalogs.

For North America try the following web site:

http://plants.usda.gov/plants/plntmenu.html

The Flora Europaea can be searched at

http://www.rbge.org.uk/forms/fe

Good luck & best wishes,

Adolf Ceska

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