Given the way that plant taxonomy works, I figured that there had to be
some kind of flowchart which would let a person start at the top of the
plant taxonomy and work their way down until they reached a positive
identification of the plant in which they were interested. Turns out there
is, but it’s called a ‘key’, not a flowchart. However, identification is
still tricky, because keys seem to exist for certain geographical areas.
Unfortunately, if you have a plant in a garden, then you don’t know which
area it actually comes from. At least the helpful USDA Plant link sites
has
a
list of links to key sites that I can check out.
posted at 17:46 on Sun, 10 Jul, 2005 |
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