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Plants
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1743 reference, Flora Virginica, by John Clayton, covers only a small portion of the state’s flora and is written in a form that’s not very useful to modem research.
The manual produced through the Flora of Virginia project will have illustrations of every plant catalogued, its distinguishing characteristics, modern nomenclature and cross-referenced plant names, as well as Virginia-specific habitat and distribution. It will also have field-tested “keys,” pictures of plant characteristics (such as the shape of the leaves) that help in identification. The associated website will have color photographs and additional natural-history information about the plants.
Twenty botanists and knowledgeable amateurs, working in teams, are now combing Jones’ property bit by bit identifying all the plants they see. What Jones didn’t realize, he said, was how many different plants he had and how slow the identification process would be. One query of “What’s that down there?,” and a whole team will
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