SUNDBERG, SCOTT D. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, 2082 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331. - The Oregon Flora Project.
The goal of the Oregon Flora Project is to produce a checklist, a
flora and an atlas of Oregon vascular plants in both paper and digital
forms. The project is coordinated by Scott Sundberg and led by 21
professional and amateur botanists. Members of the Flora project are
currently writing a vascular plant checklist, accumulating and
entering plant distribution data, and preparing a Java applet
(computer program) for the electronic atlas. The checklist of Oregon
vascular plants includes accepted name, synonyms, common name, and
origin (native or exotic). The Asteraceae portion of the checklist
has been published and other portions are nearing completion. A
prototype of the digital atlas has been prepared. It allows users to
access data online and produce dot distribution maps on a variety of
base maps (e.g., ecoregions, physiographic features, mean annual
precipitation, vegetation zones). Additional information on each site
record is available by clicking a mouse button on a locality dot.
Data are derived from herbarium specimens and species lists from
hundreds of sites throughout Oregon. The paper version of the flora
will be an identification manual with dichotomous keys, descriptions
and illustrations. The digital form will also include random access
keys, photographs, a glossary and links to the atlas of Oregon plant
localities.
Key words: floristics, Oregon flora, plant atlas, vascular plants