Interactive Online Keys for All Species of Legumes in the US and its Territories Now Available
The National Plant Data Center, in a collaborative project with the Missouri Botanical Garden has just posted interactive keys to all species of legumes in the US and its territories (http://npdc.usda.gov/technical/plantid_wetland_mono.html). As posted, the keys are atomized geographically by state or territory and are free for use online or for download and offline use. Note: if downloading, please please remember to open the ZIP file and copy it's contents to a different folder to fully unzip them. There is no installation of any kind required to run the keys locally or online. The keys run in a version of SLIKS (http://www.stingersplace.com/SLIKS/) specifically optimized for MSIE but retain primary functionality in most other mobile and and desktop browser platforms. The data matrices in the keys are easily subsetted for local areas or specific taxa and can be easily modified to include, anywhere in the key, images and other multimedia of any size as well as links to anywhere on the internet or local machine. The key application (SLIKS) is free and released under the GNU Public License and thus can be legally modified according to the GPL. These Legume keys compliment the previously released keys to all Grasses, Gymnosperms and Wetland Monocots in the US and its territories already available at PLANTS (http://plants.usda.gov). For more information please contact Dr. Gerald "Stinger" Guala (gerald.gu...@la.usda.gov).
