Subject: wetland plant classifications

From: [email-masked]
Date: 2 Apr 1996 07:24:30 GMT

I'm hoping to find the list of wetland plant classifications on-line.
It's the list the classifies plants as wetland obligate, facultative,
or upland.  Has anyone seen it?
   Thanks, Doug Bonham
   [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Richard B. Winston)
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 15:45:35 GMT

The list is available at
http://www.nwi.fws.gov/Ecology.html

I've created a web page with links to this and other wetland related
web pages at http://aapg.geol.lsu.edu/wetland.htm

>   [email-masked]

Richard B. Winston
Dept. of Geology and Geophysics		[email-masked]
Louisiana State University		http://aapg.geol.lsu.edu/rbwinsto.htm
Baton Rouge, La 70803			ftp://aapg.geol.lsu.edu/pub/winston
U.S.A.
504-388-2337
Fax 504-388-2302

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From: [email-masked] (Richard B. Winston)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 21:35:50 GMT

Try
http://trident.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov/plants/plntmenu.html

Links to this and other wetland sites can be found at
http://aapg.geol.lsu.edu/wetland.htm

Richard B. Winston

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From: Dory Owen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 17:54:25 -0700

> >   [email-masked]

Last night I downloaded a delimited text database from the US Fish & 
Wildlife Wetlands page that sounds like exactly what you're looking for. 
Here's the FTP address:

ftp://www.nwi.fws.gov/ecology/

There is a different database for each region (I'm in the upper midwest 
which is region 3) so take a look at the README file in this location to 
see which database to download.  Each record has the following fields:

     Scientific Name
     Author (for scientific name)
     Common Name        
     Nat'l Indicators (obligate, facultative, upland)  
     Regional Indicators (a panel of regional experts assigns this)
     Habits (e.g., Fern, Grass, Native, Parasitic, etc.)

So you can tell a lot from this file.  I imported it right into Microsoft 
Access where I can link it to my butterfly database.  I'm glad I won't 
have to enter all those scientific names myself like I had planned!  This 
was one of the best downloads I've found.

Dory Owen