Biology 211: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants

Web Resources for Use in this Course NOTE: Fall 2005 BI211 is being taught by Prof. Judy Stone. Her syllabus and schedule are not the same as found here (used in Fall 2004 by Prof. Phillips). Prof. Stone and her students are free to use any appropriate resources found here.

Syllabus

Goals for the course, exam schedule, plant collection requirements, and family recognition information.

Schedule

Lecture and laboratory schedule and reading assignments.

Lecture/Lab Slides

Many of the computer images used in the lectures and laboratory are being placed on the web here for you to review.

Computer Resources for Downloading:

Click here for a Microsoft Word document containing the sylabus and schedule.

Click here for a Macintosh version of the polyclave key for flowering plant family identification.

Click here for a Windows application (MEKA) that implements the polyclave key for flowering plant family identification.

Click here to download Macintosh software (MacClade 2.1) for cladistic analysis.

Click here to download a MS Word document of blank herbarium labels.

Guide to Flowering Plant Family Recognition

This is a descriptive and photographic tour of some families in the Magnoliophyta. These still developing pages can help students learn to recognize on sight members of this course's 60 required flowering plant families. The Phylogenetic System of Classification is used. A link to the older Cronquist system is available.

Flowering Plant Family Key

This is a polyclave key that allows you to select from among characteristics available in the specimen at hand, rather than following a sequence found in a traditional, dichotomous, printed key. It is especially useful if the specimen is fragmentary, as with archaeological or anthropological specimens, in which only part of a plant is represented. This key is world-wide in scope covering all flowering plants. Families do not always follow Cronquist, however, but recognize segregate families in many cases, thus effectively providing in some cases a key to subfamilies or below.

Checklist of Vascular Plants Native and Naturalized in New England

List of the 2,916 vascular plant taxa (species and infraspecific taxa) found within New England, as recorded in the USDA PLANTS database. State occurrences for each taxon are included. Be aware that some differences in nomenclature occur between this list and both Magee and Ahles Flora of the Northeast. A Manual of the Vascular Flora of New England and Adjacent New York, 1999 and Gleason and Cronquist's Manual of Vascular Plants of Notheastern United States and Adjacent Canada 2nd Edition, 1991.

Other Web Resources

A variety of internet resources related to this course, biological systematics, and plant biology in general.

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Biology 211: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants