PLANTS National Database is a central retrieval site for information
and reports about alternative crops, plant characteristics,
checklists, classification, culturally significant plants,
distribution updates, excluded & anomalous names, fact sheets,
invasive & noxious plants, plant materials publications, threatened &
endangered plants, and wetlands indicators. The metadata at this site
compile standard information (names, plant symbols, checklists,
distributional data, characteristics, images, references, crop
information) about U.S. representatives of a myriad of vascular and
non-vascular plant groups, and also lichens of the U.S. and its
territories. This is maintained by USDA. (****) -S (encore from
4/4/96)