[PCA] WEB: USDA's PLANTS Database Has County Data!

[Olivia Kwong]

I thought I'd pass along what I just noticed on the PLANTS Database:

3/7/ 2006 - Major Data Update
PLANTS had added 8000 new names representing 4500 new accepted taxa and 
3500 new synonyms. Many of these are vascular plants of the U.S., and most 
of the rest are agriculturally important. The U.S. vascular flora has been 
completely revised with updated nomenclature, plant distribution, growth 
habit, duration, and U.S. nativity. PLANTS now has county distribution 
data for 48 states! We appreciate the help of the Biota of North America 
Program in this endeavor. To the best of our knowledge all legal status 
data are also current, including noxious weed status, threatened and 
endangered lists, and wetland indicator status.

To access the county level type data, you'll need to use the advanced 
search at 
http://plants.nrcs.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=advquery/adv_query.html

Olivia Kwong
CPC/PCA
(202) 452-0392
(202) 452-7702 fax
http://www.nps.gov/plants/