Thanks a lot, Carmelita ji. -- With regards, J. M. Garg On Thu 7 Feb, 2019, 7:42 PM carmelita <[email protected] wrote:
> By now everyone knows I am not a trained botanist. > Someone has asked for my sources. I will list them now so that people > looking to identify plants in the US can access. > > The first is garden.org also known as The National Gardening Association > (totally free to join and there is a forum to request ID). My name on > garden.org is greene. > > The next is Dave's Garden (one can join for free but in order to access > the entire site there is a fee which I refuse to pay). > > For wildflowers or plants referred to as weeds, I often use > https://wildflowersearch.org/ > > For wild edibles I trust Green Deane, his website is www.eattheweeds.com > > Another is > http://wwwmissouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfinderresearch.aspx > > > I hope I have typed these correctly I use several other sources but those > are the main ones. > > There are also plant keys that can be used; some of them cost money which > again I refuse to pay. > > If there is a decent photo I use 'search Google for this image' then do > further research to narrow down the ID. > For the currently accepted botanical name, I use The Catalogue of Life > http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/ > and also double check with The Plant List.http://www.theplantlist.org/ > > When someone shows images and requests an ID, all we can do is offer > suggestions. It is up to the person who took the photos to compare our > suggestions to the plant that they photographed. > I am very tired and hope my message makes sense. Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
