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Identifying Plants?

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I need to identify some Rocky Mountain plants in Utah, and I have a field guide, but it doesn't have all the plants that I have collected. Does anyone know of an online guide I could use?

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  1. I would suggest to try a plant forum

    Or even better... Look for Utah DNR (Department of Natural Resources) site...

    FDA plant files... (Very extensive...But, honestly boring to look through...LoL)

    Utah specific preservation of native plants...

    I am sure you will do well with these...


  2. Try some of these sites

    http://gardeninglaunchpad.com/WF.html

    http://www.conps.org/links.html

    Utah wildflowers

    http://www.xmission.com/%7Enelsonb/wildf...

    http://www.wasatchaudubon.org/flowers/

    http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/Pin...

    http://www.hort.usu.edu/PlantGuide/index...

    http://www.utahschoice.org/utahs-choice-...

    http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rdsd...

    Utah native plant society

    http://www.unps.org/index.html

    Utah rare plant guide

    http://www.utahrareplants.org/rpg_acknow...

  3. Try A Utah Flora, by Welsh, Atwood, Goodrich, and Higgins.  Since you are in Utah, you can find it at a library.  Also consider calling a nearby college to see if one of their botanists will help you.

  4. In addition to all the other good advice, consider that the plants you collected might be weeds -- especially if you're collecting near pastures, roads or trails or other disturbed ground.  Weeds rarely make the popular field guides -- in fact, they rarely are collected for herbarium specimens.

    Here's a few possibilities:

    http://extension.usu.edu/weedweb/

    http://www.utahweed.org/weeds.htm

    http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/nox...

    http://npdc.usda.gov/technical/plantid_w...

    If your plants are only vegetative (no flowers or fruit), you're probably going to have a tough time identifying them.
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