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Welcome to the NRCS National Plant Data Center web site.

The National Plant Data Center (NPDC) acquires, develops, improves, and disseminates plant information to support NRCS and other efforts to improve the ecological health of the land.

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge: New Technical Note

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Indigenous Uses, Management, and Restoration of Oaks in the Far Western United States, Technical Note TN.190.PM.2, is now available. For more than 9,000 years, native peoples in the West led lives enmeshed with the oaks that surrounded them. Learn how they used and managed oaks and oak ecosystems, and what is being done today.

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PLANTS Identification Keys Available for Use and Testing

Automated plant keys for selected U.S. plant groups are available for use and testing on-line or by downloading the application. These keys let you identify plants using multiple plant characters simultaneously.

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Ongoing Projects

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The PLANTS Database

The PLANTS database includes information on the vascular and nonvascular plants of the United States and its territories. It includes checklists, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plants symbols, growth data, references and a variety of other plant information.

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Last Modified: 05/27/2008