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Questions and Answers: 2014

Question: As mentioned in the last couple questions I'm working through old field sampling photos to ID plants on some study …

  • Question

    As mentioned in the last couple questions I'm working through old field sampling photos to ID plants on some study sites (all from Maine and northern New York). I've used the dichotomous keys to help ID many of the plants, but am stumped on approximately 30 unidentified plants. Would you have any additional suggestions for ways to ID the remaining photos or know of anyone I could contact in Maine. I'd like to avoid asking so many questions and bombarding this site!

    Answer

    kkl234, you can try contacting a local herbarium, where people often enjoy helping people work through plant samples. The is a website called Index Herbariorum that can help you located nearby museums. In the mean time, we can continue to work through your images (please post one or two at a time to make it easy for me to reference your images in the response). Best wishes.