Plant Image Gallery

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Plant Image Gallery

Forbs
Grasses & Grasslike Plants
Trees, Shrubs & Woody Vines
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Authors: Russell Stevens, Wildlife and Range Specialist | Chuck Coffey, Pasture and Range Specialist
The Plant Image Gallery is a project of the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA
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Grasses & grasslike plants

Forbs

Trees, shrubs & woody vines

Image Gallery Search Engine Makes Plant Identification Speedy, Simple

Since its launch in 1997, the Noble Foundation's popular online Plant Image Gallery has helped thousands of natural resource managers, ecologists, students and homeowners who are seeking to identify plants. Now, Noble is pleased to announce some upgrades to the site that will make plant identification faster and easier.

The Image Gallery Search Engine is a new tool that allows users to select criteria about an unknown plant from dropdown menus and then run a search for potential matches. This new search engine is also enhanced by pictorial keys for menu items such as leaf structure and fruit type, allowing users to see drawings of the characteristics and choose the right one for the plant they want to identify.

Currently, the Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines search engine is fully functional. Search engines for the Forbs and Grasses and Grasslike Plants will be added soon.


		The Noble Foundation publication Grasses of Southern Oklahoma and North Texas: A Pictorial Guide has more than 100 full-color pages. By Chuck Coffey and Russell Stevens, authors of the Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery. Order now online (1-4 copies) To Order by Mail Send a check or money order payable to Noble Foundation for $25.00 + $4.00* shipping per copy to: Noble Foundation Attn: Ag Publications Distribution 2510 Sam Noble Pky. Ardmore, OK 73401 * Bulk order five or more books and pay no shipping! Make your check out for $25/book when ordering five or more. Include your shipping information and a daytime phone number with mail-in orders. Please allow three to four weeks for delivery.
Introduction to Plant Gallery The Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery is designed to assist botanists, ecologists, and natural resource managers with the identification of plants. It should also prove useful to educators in the classroom as well as students who are required to learn plants as a part of their studies. Furthermore, we hope that those of you with any affinity to plants, hobby or otherwise, will find this to be an interesting and useful site. We have captured numerous images of each plant species for your ease in their identification. Most Grasses represented have been photographed in their entirety during their reproductive phase along with close-ups of the inflorescences, spikelets, and other identifiable vegetative characteristics. Most forbs have also been photographed in their entirety during flowering along with close-ups of the flowers, fruits, stems, and leaves. The woody plants represented have been photographed in their entirety as well, but not necessarily during their flowering or fruiting periods. We have focused more on close-ups of their leaves for use in identification, but have included numerous close-ups of flowers and fruits as well. Our Plant Image Gallery is an ongoing project which currently includes over 600 species of vascular plants. There are nearly 5000 species of vascular plants known to Texas and nearly 3000 species of vascular plants known to Oklahoma. We are located in Ardmore, Oklahoma which is halfway between Dallas, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Therefore, the closer you are to this region of the country, the greater the likelihood of you finding plants in our Plant Image Gallery that are common to your region. However, a large portion of the plants we have photographed occur as far south as the Texas Gulf Coast and as far north as the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska. Many of the same species are also common from New Mexico and Colorado to Arkansas and Missouri. We have focused on plants near to Ardmore due to proximity, but have plans to begin including more species, as time will allow.