New Distributional Maps on NRCS PLANTS Web Site

The National Plant Data Center (NPDC) has announced that a new PLANTS Plant Profiles map is now available on the PLANTS Web site. The map depicts North America — north of the Mexican border.  The U.S. portion includes Hawaii, Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. Data for Canada, Greenland (Denmark), and the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) were provided to us by the Montreal Botanical Garden so that PLANTS could better reflect a plant’s distribution across North America.

To access the new tool, go to the PLANTS home page, click on the Plant of the Week, and scroll down to a map of the plant’s location.  Definitions of the geographic jurisdiction abbreviations can be found by clicking on the Native Status link on the Plant Profile — just left of the species image at the top of the profile
Your contact is Mark Skinner, NPDC National Botanist, at 225-775-6280.