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Description:
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"The Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery is designed to assist botanists, ecologists, and natural resource managers with the identification of plants. It should also prove useful to educators in the classroom as well as students who are required to learn plants as a part of their studies. Furthermore, we hope that those of you with any affinity to plants, hobby or otherwise, will find this to be an interesting and useful site.
"We have captured numerous images of each plant species for your ease in their identification. Most Grasses represented have been photographed in their entirety during their reproductive phase along with close-ups of the inflorescences, spikelets, and other identifiable vegetative characteristics. Most forbs have also been photographed in their entirety during flowering along with close-ups of the flowers, fruits, stems, and leaves. The woody plants represented have been photographed in their entirety as well, but not necessarily during their flowering or fruiting periods. We have focused more on close-ups of their leaves for use in identification, but have included numerous close-ups of flowers and fruits as well.
"Our Plant Image Gallery is an ongoing project which currently includes over 600 species of vascular plants. There are nearly 5000 species of vascular plants known to Texas and nearly 3000 species of vascular plants known to Oklahoma. We are located in Ardmore, Oklahoma which is halfway between Dallas, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Therefore, the closer you are to this region of the country, the greater the likelihood of you finding plants in our Plant Image Gallery that are common to your region. However, a large portion of the plants we have photographed occur as far south as the Texas Gulf Coast and as far north as the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska. Many of the same species are also common from New Mexico and Colorado to Arkansas and Missouri. We have focused on plants near to Ardmore due to proximity, but have plans to begin including more species, as time will allow."
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Unrestricted. |
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Provider: | Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc. |
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