About
Scope. The mission of the North Carolina State University Vascular Plant Herbarium (NCSC) is: (1) To document and understand plant diversity (Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation [GSPC], Convention for Biological Diversity), and (2) to transfer the taxonomic expertise developed to various users that depend on the generated knowledge. In line with this mission, we serve a very diverse clientele, from students, to master gardeners, to nurserymen, professional field botanists, ecologists, and many others. Consequently, our products are also necessarily diverse and tailored to various levels of expertise.
In this web app, we seek to provide, in one convenient mobile-adapative site, access to the various plant identification web apps and resources that have been developed or contributed to by NCSC over the past few years. Whether you are new to learning plants or an old field sage, whether something unfamiliar stops you in your tracks or memory fails, we hope you'll find some use in our "little helper".
Arrangement. Our resources can be accessed in one of two ways, either by alphabetical list (through the "list" link above) or by category (through the "key" link above).
Future. We consider this work a "living" resource and thus seek to continue to add resources, tweak content, improve key features, etc. over time. Future versions will be identified by sequentially increasing version numbers.
Copyright. Re-use of any image in any of the listed resources that are identified as copyrighted, for any purpose what-so-ever, is prohibited without the express written permission of the copyright owner. For permission to re-use any image, please contact the copyright owner directly.
Suggested citation. Please cite this work as: Krings, A. 2018–present. The botanist's little helper. Version 1.0. North Carolina State University, Raleigh. [http://herbarium.ncsu.edu/littlehelper/; (date accessed)].
