Official Home Page of the Biota of North America Program (BONAP)

The Synthesis of the North American Flora, published in August, 1999, is still available from the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Click here to download a 1 mb demonstration version for Windows.
For NEWS on BONAP's progress towards its 2008 publication and information on BONAP's current work, please see our Current Projects Page.
- For a partial list of new names to appear in BONAP's 2008 publication, see our Taxonomic and nomenclatural updates
- For samples of the new county level distribution maps to appear in BONAP's 2008 publication, see Phytogeographic updates
- For a description of BONAP's image collection and sample pictures, see Image updates
  NEW (January 2008) : Plant Images by BONAP Images by Jessie M. Harris. (The first 13,000 of our 250,000 plant image collection.) Keep watching for major changes on this site.
- For NEW MAPS (September 2007) : See 1200 additional BONAP plant distribution maps at Pollen.com

The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) at the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was founded in 1969 by Dr. John Kartesz. The program's goal is to develop a unified digital system for assessing the North American biota. BONAP's database now includes assessment for all vascular plants and vertebrate animals (native, naturalized, and adventive) of North America, north of Mexico, and maintains the most current taxonomy, nomenclature, and biogeographic data for all members of the biota.

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