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Background | Species
Descriptions (includes Distribution Maps) |
Species List by County |
ILPIN was designed to provide many different types of
information about ALL of the vascular plant taxa found in Illinois. At
this site, you can search on a species (by scientific or common name),
and retrieve all the information we have compiled on the species, as well
as a map of its known distribution among the counties in Illinois. Over
130 variables were evaluated for each species, though seldom will all variables
have data. This is a start, but a tremendous amount of information still
needs to researched and/or compiled. The variables are presented in the
input
form, used in the compilation process, and described in the document,
input
form descriptors.
ILPIN was developed by Louis
Iverson (liverson@fs.fed.us), currently employed by the USDA
Forest Service, 359 Main Road, Delaware, OH 43015. Data were complied
from numerous sources by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes, at the Illinois
Natural History Survey. Nomenclature for taxa follow: Mohlenbrock,
R.H. 1986. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University
Press, Carbondale, IL.
Work was conducted and sponsored by the Illinois
Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody, Champaign, IL 61820. Funding
was also provided by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The work
was primarily done during the period 1984-1992; this current effort is
to make the data more readily available via the web. Thanks to Anantha
Prasad (USDA Forest Service) for preparing the Javascript for this site.
Please realize that the database is far from complete;
much of the information just is not available. Common names are not available
for all species, and many species have more than one common name. Here,
only one (if available) is given; other common names are presented in the
data for individual species.
Citation for this database: Iverson, L.R., D. Ketzner, and J. Karnes. 1999. Illinois Plant Information Network. Database at http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/ilpin/ilpin.html. Illinois Natural History Survey and USDA Forest Service. Other publications about ILPIN (reprints available from Louis Iverson): Iverson, L.R., A. Prasad, and D.M. Ketzner. 1997. A summary of the Illinois flora based on the Illinois Plant Information Network. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 90:41-64. Iverson, L.R., and A. Prasad. 1998. Estimating regional plant biodiversity with GIS modelling. Diversity and Distributions 4:49-61. |
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Species Descriptions (includes Distribution Maps): The species list has links to the species description and the maps that show the county distribution of the species. Select species by Genus (Netscape > 4.0 or InternetExplorer >4.0):
OR you can browse the entire species list of 3209 taxa (~ 850 KB) by clicking HERE
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List Species by County: You can list the species by using a county map or an alphabetized list of counties. |