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Local Flora Project
The goal of the Local Flora Project is to understand how the
changes in our region over the past 200 years have affected our
local flora.
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Here to access the Local Flora Project Database
As part of the Local Flora Project, the Plant Research Division
is developing the Local Flora Database, a long-term project to
computerize all the records of plants in the greater Cincinnati
area, including Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana, past
and present.
The Local Flora Project seeks to involve professionals and non-professionals
in botany, students and teachers from all parts of the Greater
Cincinnati area to use and add to the Local Flora Database. Researchers,
teachers, school groups, garden clubs, wildflower groups, or
individuals who would like more information or who would like
to contribute information to the database are encouraged to contact:
lfp@cincinnatizoo.org.
• The first phase of this project was to computerize the approximately
12,000 local records from the University of Cincinnati Herbarium.
• Several botanical surveys have also been entered, from Hamilton
County Parks, and other natural areas.
• At the end of 2005, over 19,000 entries have been made into the
database.
• Future work will involve adding records from the herbaria at
Northern Kentucky University and Miami University, as well as
from other local botanical surveys.
• GIS software is being incorporated into the database, which will
allow researchers and students to visualize species locations,
past and present.
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The Local Flora Project is supported by the Local Flora Advisory
Committee, made up of professionals in botany from the Greater
Cincinnati area.
A major question that the database seeks to answer is, “What
changes have there been in our area in the past 200 years?”
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