[Taxacom] Plant names

[Tom Schweich]

I have a similar issue, in that the agency I primarily work with uses 
the USDA plant symbols, yet some plants I am finding on their lands are 
not listed by USDA, or are listed as a synonym. I generally use the 
names from Flora of North America, since my collections are nearly all 
North American.   That should work with North American knotweed since 
that volume is published 
(http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=126398). For 
those taxa not listed in USDA Plants, I put "XXXX" in the USDA symbol 
field of the data I send to the agency.  I think the closest thing to a 
global catalog would be the International Plant Name Index (IPNI at 
https://www.ipni.org/). I have used IPNI quite a bit, though mostly for 
tracing historic plant names.

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On 2/9/2021 11:28 AM, Joey Slowik via Taxacom wrote:
> So this may be a simple question. I'm helping with a Knotweed EA and
> have realized that the recent publications all use a different name
> than the USDA. The USDA plants database, which is what we are told to
> use for reference, seems outdated, like 10+ years. And for some names
> there seems to be no justification but historical use. Is there a
> reason for this? I usually work with spiders and there is a general
> consensus on accepted names from the World Spider Catalog. But is
> there debate in the plant naming world? Is it ok to use old names?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jozef Slowik
> UAF Cooperative Extension Service
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