About the Atlas - Contributors

Contributors

Countless individuals and institutions have provided data, assistance, and funding for the Atlas. We sincerely thank all of these individuals and institutions for their contributions. Without them the Atlas would not exist in its current form. We ask for the apologies of any individual or institution that we have inadvertently excluded from our acknowledgments. Finally, while we thank the following individuals and institutions, the final decisions regarding the data in the atlas are the responsibility of the authors.

We thank the various herbaria and their staff and volunteers who have contributed specimen data directly to the atlas including: BKL, BUF, CONN, NY, NYS, PLAT, RCFS, and SUCO.

We also thank the following individuals for contributing images to the Atlas including: Kimberly Smith and Andrew Nelson.

We also thank the individuals who have contributed information or data, or have reviewed the atlas including: Ed Fuchs, Tim Howard (for provided the generic ecological community descriptions), Anne Johnson, John Kartesz (for digitizing the 1990 NY Flora Association Atlas and allowing us to start this project with a large dataset), Richard Mitchell (Former NY State Botanist: for helping to produce the original 1990 NY Flora Association Atlas and for the immense amount of NYS floristic work he has contributed), Andrew Nelson, Connie Tedesco, and Donna Vogler, Steve Young.

We also thank the following individuals for contributing information on taxonomy and nomenclature: Ihsan Al-Shehbaz, Arthur Haines, Barre Hellquist, Justin Ramsey, Jim Reveal, Leila Shultz, Clive Stace, John Strother, Gordon Tucker, and Steve Young.

Funding for the New York Flora Atlas was made possible through a grant from the New York State Biodiversity Research Institute with matching funds from the New York Flora Association membership.

We graciously thank the following institutions for maintaining their valuable specimen collections. In addition, some of these institutions have directly provided the Atlas with data from their collections. Finally, other institutions have allowed researchers to use their facilities to record data from their collections.

Participating Herbaria

Herbarium Name	Code	Number of Records
Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum	A	135
Amherst College Herbarium	AC	6
John D. Freeman Herbarium at Auburn University	AUA	1
Bard College Herbarium	BARD	40
Bailey Hortorium Herbarium at Cornell University	BH	7,334
SUNY Binghamton	BING	2,399
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Herbarium	BKL	50,383
The Natural History Museum	BM	1
Clinton Herbarium, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY	BUF	5,229
Wayne E Manning Herbarium, Bucknell University	BUPL	480
Canadian Museum of Nature	CAN	1
Herbarium, Canisius College, Biology Dept., Buffalo, NY	CANI	13
Charles B. Graves Herbarium, Botany Dept., Connecticut College, New London, CT	CCNL	1
Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University	CHRB	262
Cranberry Lake Biological Station	CLBS	16
Carnegie Museum of Natural History	CM	7
George Stafford Torrey Herbarium, University of Connecticut	CONN	1,618
Cort Herbarium at SUNY Cortland	CORT	14
C.W. Post Herbarium, Long Island, NY	CWPOST	4
Delta Institute of Natural History	DINH	3
Duke University Herbarium	DUKE	6
Eckert Herbarium, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY	ECK	2
Elmira College	ELMI	1
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	ESF	131
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago	F	3
Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University	FH	1
Herbarium of Finger Lakes Community College	FLCC	15
Fulton Montgomery Community College Herbarium	FMCC	770
Herbarium GB at University of Gothenburg	GB	1
Gray Herbarium, Harvard University	GH	854
George R. Cooley Herbarium at Colgate University	GRCH	51
Hoysradt Herbarium, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY	HHH	107
Gordon Tucker's Fishers Island specimen collection, specimens waiting to be mounted at NYS	HLF	25
Houghton College, Houghton, NY	HOUGH	36
Monroe County Department of Parks Herbarium	HPH	9
Harvard University Herbarium	HUH	456
University of Illinois	ILL	1
Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium	INHS	81
Iowa State University, Ada Hayden Herbarium	ISC	7
Northern Kentucky University herbarium	KNK	1
Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University	LSU	1
Massachusetts State Herbarium	MASS	13
Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI	MICH	13
Pullen Herbarium of the University of Mississippi	MISS	63
Mississippi State University Herbarium	MISSA	1
Missouri Botanical Garden	MO	14
Daniel Smiley Research Center, Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, NY	MOHONK	7
Millersville University, James C. Parks Herbarium	MVSC	3
Herbarium, United States National Arboretum, Washington, DC	NA	3
University of North Carolina Herbarium	NCU	86
New England Botanical Club Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA	NEBC	5
Niagara University Herbarium	NIAG	1
Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY	NY	5,469
New York Flora Association. 1990. Preliminary Vouchered Atlas of New York State Flora, Ed. 1.	NYFA_1990	51,144
Herbarium, Biological Survey, New York State Museum, Albany, NY	NYS	22,932
Herbarium, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY	OBPF	3,144
Ohio State University Herbarium	OS	1
Herbarium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	PENN	1
Herbarium, Botany Dept., Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA	PH	1,054
State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh	PLAT	1
Fowler Herbarium at Queen's University	QK	1
Herbarium of Quebec	QUE	38
Herbarium, Queens College, Queens, NY	QUEENSCO	6
Herbarium, Rice Creek Field Station, State University of New York-Oswego, Oswego, NY	RCFS	2,600
Rocky Mountain Herbarium, University of Wyoming	RM	1
Herbarium, Botany Section, Rochester Academy of Science, Rochester, NY	ROCH	3,021
Swedish Museum of Natural History	S	21
Herbarium, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site	SAHI	1
Herbarium, Biology Dept., Saint Bonaventure University, Saint Bonaventure, NY	SBU	36
Herbarium, Science Dept., Staten Island Institute of Arts and Science, Staten Island, NY	SIM	185
Sterling Nature Center - Cayuga County	STERL	224
Herbarium, Saint Lawrence University, Canton, NY	STLA	256
SUNY-Oneonta Herbarium	SUCO	1,256
Herbarium, Plant Sciences Dept., Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY	SYR	305
Herbarium, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, SUNY, Syracuse, NY	SYRF	70
S.M. Tracy Herbarium of Texas A&M University	TAES	75
University of California Herbarium (UC-Berkley)	UC	3
United States National Herbarium, Botany Dept., Washington, CD	US	109
Intermountain Herbarium, Utah State University	UTC	2
UTICA	UTICA	1
Utica College herbarium	Utica Coll	1
Pringle Herbarium, Botany Dept., University of Vermont, Burlington, VT	VT	2
Herbarium, Biology Dept., West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV	WVA	1
Herbarium, Osborn Memorial Laboratories, Biology Dept., Yale University, New Haven, CT	YU	44

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Citation Information:

Weldy, Troy, David Werier, and Andrew Nelson. 2021 New York Flora Atlas. [S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (original application development), USF Water Institute. University of South Florida]. New York Flora Association, Albany, New York.

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