United States Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
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Plants Data

FGDC - Earth Cover Working Group
The group fosters an integrated, standardized, cost-efficient approach to identifying, classifying, and mapping features that cover the surface of the United States.

National Plants Database
This database provides a single source of standardized information about plants. PLANTS provides standardized plant names, symbols, and other plant attribute information.

Integrated Taxonomic Information System
This database offers quality taxonomic information of flora and fauna from both aquatic and terrestrial habitats.

National Plants Data Center (NPDC)
NPDC focuses resources on the acquisition, development, integration, quality control, dissemination and access of plant information; NPDC incorporates new plant technology into the agency's automated tools.



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