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Contents
 Linking to PLANTS
Please feel free to link to the PLANTS database,
its individual pages, and its images.
Images
All images at PLANTS are free for non-commercial scientific and educational
uses. Conditions of use vary as follows, and acknowledgement is required:
Non-copyrighted images: Use
of these public domain PLANTS images is unrestricted (i.e., free for any
use) and requires no notification of the photographer or the PLANTS Database.
Copyrighted images: Copyrighted images may be freely
used for any
non-commercial purpose. However, any use of copyrighted images
requires
notification of the copyright holder, and any commercial use
must be
disclosed to and conditions of use negotiated with the copyright
holder.
Use by non-profit organizations in connection with fund-raising
or
product sales is considered commercial use. Please see the
Usage
Guidelines displayed with each picture for the copyright holder's
contact information, and contact them directly regarding any
use of
copyrighted images.
Acknowledgement: Any use of any PLANTS
image requires proper credit to the photographer or illustrator,
copyright holder, institution, and the PLANTS Database. Here
are two examples of appropriate acknowledgment:
©M. Kat Anderson
NPDC @ PLANTS Database |
Robert Mohlenbrock
USDA, NRCS, 1997 - Northeastern Wetlands Flora
@ PLANTS Database |
Linking: Linking to images requires no
permission, and we welcome it.
Plant Information
Our plant information, including the distribution maps, lists, and text, is not copyrighted and is free for any use. We would appreciate your courtesy in acknowledging the National Plant Data Center and the PLANTS database when using or reproducing any of these data, and also recognizing the contributions of the following specialists:
Vascular Plants
PLANTS’ vascular plant nomenclature, most
phytogeography, and core attribute data for the United States and its Caribbean
territories are provided under a cooperative agreement with John Kartesz and
his staff at the Biota of North America Program (BONAP).
Pacific Basin vascular plant checklists, excluding
Hawaii, are being developed by Warren L. Wagner, Department of Botany,
Smithsonian Institution, and George Staples, The Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
Longterm maintenance of the Pacific Basin checklist is being done by Dr.
Wagner. All users of Pacific Basin vascular PLANTS data should acknowledge the
contributions made by the Smithsonian and Bishop museums.
Nonvascular Plants
Lichens
Robert Egan (U. Nebraska at Omaha) and Theodore
Esslinger (North Dakota State University) assembled the lichen checklist in
PLANTS, which is based upon the North American lichen checklist published
periodically in the Bryologist. Roger Rosentreter of the Bureau of Land
Management provided some of our lichen common names from an unpublished
manuscript.
Mosses
Marshall Crosby of the Missouri Botanical Garden is
currently updating our moss checklist in association with botanists working on
bryophytes for the Flora of North America. Lewis Anderson and Molly
McMullen of Duke University developed the original list.
Liverworts and hornworts
Ray Stotler and Barbara Crandall-Stotler of
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale developed these checklists.
How to Cite the PLANTS Database
Please cite the National PLANTS Database as:
USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). Data compiled from various sources by Mark W. Skinner. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
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