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Resources for Plant Identification in Hawaii
The Hawaiian Islands are home to amazing array of unique plants. Today it is estimated that there are approximately 1,400 vascular plant taxa (including species, subspecies, and varieties) native to the State of Hawai‘i, and nearly 90 percent of these are found nowhere else in the world.
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/ecosystems/rare-plants/
Book Resources:
Graf, Alfred Byrd. Roehrs Co., East Rutherford, NJ. Tropica : color cyclopedia of exotic plants and trees for warm-region horticulture--in cool climate the summer garden or sheltered indoors. Internet Archive to borrow: https://archive.org/details/tropicacolorcycl00graf
Little, E.L. and R.G. Skolmen. 1989. Common Forest Trees of Hawaii (Native and Introduced). USDA, Agriculture Handbook No. 679, Washington D.C. Individual chapters available on-line at http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/trees/little_skolmen.html
Motooka, P., L. Castro, D. Nelson, G. Nagai, and L. Ching. 2003. Weeds and Pastures of Hawaii’s Pastures and Natural Areas: An Identification and Management Guide. Coll. Trop. Agr. Human Resources, Honolulu, HI. Individual chapters available on line at http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/invweed/weedsHi.html
Staples, G.W. and D.R. Herbst. 1995. A Tropical Garden Flora: Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and Other Tropical Places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, HI.
A huge & comprehensive guide to tropical flora from the Bishop Museum, Hawaii.
Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Soehmer. 1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai‘i, revised edition. University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu. http://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu:7008/vwebv/enterCourseReserve.do (Search for TPSS 475)
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: Updated information and a searchable database available at http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/
Website Resources:
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/
The most up to date searchable database of all native and naturalized non-native plants in Hawaii.
Common Forest Trees of Hawaii (Native and Introduced) Little and Skolmen, USDA Forest Service http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/trees/little_skolmen.html
Individual chapters on 150 forest tree species.
Weeds of Hawaii’s Pastures and Natural Areas (Philip Motooka, UH CTAHR): http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/invweed/weedsHi.html
Photos of the weeds and how to control them but no keys for identification.
Hawaiian Native Plants, UH Botany (Gerald Carr): http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/natives.htm
Plants of Hawaii (Forest and Kim Starr): http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/?o=plants
The most comprehensive collection of photos of plants in Hawai‘i, with tens of thousands of images.
Native Plants Hawai‘i, by UH Leeward Community College and David Eickhoff http://nativeplants.hawaii.edu Includes information on cultivation and use of native plants.
www.flickr.com Online photo sharing site with many photos of Hawaii plants. You can search for images if you think you know what a plant is or even what the genus or family is. Like Wikipedia, anyone can post things and some things are incorrect, but the community usually is self-correcting and reliable.
Hawaii Plant ID: http://www.flickr.com/groups/HawaiiPlantID Sign up for a free Flickr account and you can post photos of unknown plants to this group. Local botanists will usually respond with a tentative ID within a few hours.
USDA Germplasm Repository Information (GRIN) taxonomy for plants: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl
Current taxonomy for all plants in the US. You can search by common name or scientific name at http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl
Hawaii Invasive Species Council: https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/
Invasive Species Profiles - The federal and state definitions for “invasive species” are broad, non-regulatory terms that describe any non-native species that causes or could cause harm to agriculture, natural resources, economy, or human health. In Hawaii, there are thousands of species that fit this broad definition of “invasive species.”
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/ecosystems/rare-plants/
Book Resources:
Graf, Alfred Byrd. Roehrs Co., East Rutherford, NJ. Tropica : color cyclopedia of exotic plants and trees for warm-region horticulture--in cool climate the summer garden or sheltered indoors. Internet Archive to borrow: https://archive.org/details/tropicacolorcycl00graf
Little, E.L. and R.G. Skolmen. 1989. Common Forest Trees of Hawaii (Native and Introduced). USDA, Agriculture Handbook No. 679, Washington D.C. Individual chapters available on-line at http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/trees/little_skolmen.html
Motooka, P., L. Castro, D. Nelson, G. Nagai, and L. Ching. 2003. Weeds and Pastures of Hawaii’s Pastures and Natural Areas: An Identification and Management Guide. Coll. Trop. Agr. Human Resources, Honolulu, HI. Individual chapters available on line at http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/invweed/weedsHi.html
Staples, G.W. and D.R. Herbst. 1995. A Tropical Garden Flora: Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and Other Tropical Places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, HI.
A huge & comprehensive guide to tropical flora from the Bishop Museum, Hawaii.
Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Soehmer. 1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai‘i, revised edition. University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu. http://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu:7008/vwebv/enterCourseReserve.do (Search for TPSS 475)
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: Updated information and a searchable database available at http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/
Website Resources:
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/
The most up to date searchable database of all native and naturalized non-native plants in Hawaii.
Common Forest Trees of Hawaii (Native and Introduced) Little and Skolmen, USDA Forest Service http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/trees/little_skolmen.html
Individual chapters on 150 forest tree species.
Weeds of Hawaii’s Pastures and Natural Areas (Philip Motooka, UH CTAHR): http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/invweed/weedsHi.html
Photos of the weeds and how to control them but no keys for identification.
Hawaiian Native Plants, UH Botany (Gerald Carr): http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/natives.htm
Plants of Hawaii (Forest and Kim Starr): http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/?o=plants
The most comprehensive collection of photos of plants in Hawai‘i, with tens of thousands of images.
Native Plants Hawai‘i, by UH Leeward Community College and David Eickhoff http://nativeplants.hawaii.edu Includes information on cultivation and use of native plants.
www.flickr.com Online photo sharing site with many photos of Hawaii plants. You can search for images if you think you know what a plant is or even what the genus or family is. Like Wikipedia, anyone can post things and some things are incorrect, but the community usually is self-correcting and reliable.
Hawaii Plant ID: http://www.flickr.com/groups/HawaiiPlantID Sign up for a free Flickr account and you can post photos of unknown plants to this group. Local botanists will usually respond with a tentative ID within a few hours.
USDA Germplasm Repository Information (GRIN) taxonomy for plants: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl
Current taxonomy for all plants in the US. You can search by common name or scientific name at http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl
Hawaii Invasive Species Council: https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/
Invasive Species Profiles - The federal and state definitions for “invasive species” are broad, non-regulatory terms that describe any non-native species that causes or could cause harm to agriculture, natural resources, economy, or human health. In Hawaii, there are thousands of species that fit this broad definition of “invasive species.”
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Key to Commonly Cultivated Trees of Hawaii
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