What's New
::: Coming Attractions ::: The code which helps to display the iPIX 360-degree interactive images has become hopelessly depricated. This site went 'live' for the first time in 2003. Times have changed. Work will be ongoing to bring the functionality of these useful images up-to-date. Just keep checking back.
Range maps will be added to the species pages, as well as links to source sites (such as ITIS, USDA Plant database, and others). Image updates are forthcoming on the species pages as I work my way through the backlog. Many more "Zoomified" images will be added. And at some point, we will finish the text descriptions for the virtual tour site pages and complete the descriptions on individual species pages.
::: What's New :::
Working through the backlog of images and updating taxonomic changes:
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16 October 2018
- correction: added Smilax smallii (lance-leaf greenbrier). Previously listed as Smilax lanceolata)
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12 May 2017
- updated/corrected family for Illicium floridanum (starbush) to Illiaceae
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26 July 2016
- Updated family for sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) from Hamamelidaceae to Altingiaceae
- Updated Sambucus canadensis (elderberry) to Sambucus nigra
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10 May 2016
- Added fruit images (immature and mature) to Foresteira acuminata (swamp privet) Thanks to Clay and Sharon Coleman for the submissions.
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9 November 2015
- Corrected the wetland desigmation note for Crataegus opaca (mayhaw) on the Crataegus sp. (hawthorn) page.
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26 October 2015
- Nyssa aquatica (water tupelo), Nyssa biflora (swamp tupelo), and Nyssa sylvatica (blackgum) have been moved to the from Family Nyssaceae to the Family Cornaceae.
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3 September 2015
- Changed scientific name of Florida maple to Acer floridanum
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April 2015
- Changed scientific name of mockernut hichory back to Carya tomentosa
- Changed scientific name of Carolina buckthorn to Rhamnus caroliniana
- Lygodium japonicum (Japanese climbing fern) has been moved to the Lygodiaceae family
- Changed scientific name of Pinus palustris x Pinus taeda (Sonderegger pine) to Pinus x sondereggeri
- Added alternate common name for dwarf greenbrier: sarsparilla
- Viburnm dentatum (arrowwood), Viburnum nudum (possumhaw), and Viburnum rufidulum (rusty blackhaw) have been moved to the Adoxaceae family
- Nyssa sylvatica (blackgum), Nyssa biflora (swamp tupelo), and Nyssa aquatica (water tupelo) have been moved to the Nyssaceae family
updating taxomoic changes to species names and family assignments
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September 2014
- Added instructions for correcting Java issues with iPIX images: Getting Security Errors When Loading Java Applets
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August 2014
- updated scientific name for candleberry from Sebastiania ligustrina to Ditrysinia fruticosa
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July 2014
- updated species name for mockernut hickory from Carya tomentosa to Carya alba
- Additional images to species Fagaceae (oaks)
- updated Best Recognition Features (BRFs) on Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis)
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June 2014: Additional images to species in Junglandaceae (hickories) and Fagaceae (oaks).
- hickories:
- Carya aquatica (water hickory)
- Carya cordiformis (bitternut hickory)
- Carya glabra (pignut hickory)
- Carya illinoinensis (sweet pecan)
- Carya x lecontei (bitter pecan)
- Juglans nigra (black walnut)
- oaks:
- Castanea pumila (chinquapin)
- Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
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26 May 2014: Made a number of changes to Family assignments.
- Maples, and red buckeye have been moved to Sapindaceae family (formerly Aceraceae)
- Itea virginica, Virginiawillow, has been moved into new Iteaceae family - (formerly in the Saxifragaceae family)
- Paulownia tomentosa, royal paulownia, has been moved to the Paulowniaceae family (formerly the Scrophulariaceae)
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