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Recent Plant Photos

Below is one of many photographs that have been submitted to the Flora Atlas.

New York Flora Association

The New York Flora Association is an organization dedicated to the promotion of field botany and greater understanding of the plants that grow in the wild in New York State. Ours is an independent non-profit. It is funded largely by dues and gifts but may also accept grants. For more information visit our website.

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Atlas Statistics

View some important indices for this Atlas that are kept up-to-date in real-time.

Atlas Statistics
Statistic Value
Number of Plant Species4,112
Number of Plant Images7,947
Number of Herbarium Records166,993

About the Flora Atlas

The New York Flora Atlas is a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state, as well as information on plant habitats, associated ecological communities, and taxonomy. In addition, users can learn about the location of vouchered specimens and see images to get a better visual for each plant. The next step is to create a Manual to the New York State Flora. Early efforts are underway to move towards this goal.

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Browse the Flora Atlas By Map

Select a county below to view plant species for that county. Hover over a county to view the county name.

How to link to the Plant Atlas

The Plant Atlas has been designed to allow external websites to dynamically link to individual species and issue URL-based searches. This method allows you to link to the Atlas without knowing individual unique species identifiers.

  1. Use the following syntax to link to a species page on the Atlas:
    https://newyork.plantatlas.usf.edu/Results.aspx?q=Genus+species
  2. Search for species within a specific family (and link to family page) using this syntax:
    https://newyork.plantatlas.usf.edu/Results.aspx?cat=family&text=Orchidaceae
  3. Use the following syntax to search for a specific genus:
    https://newyork.plantatlas.usf.edu/Results.aspx?cat=genus&text=Abies

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