Simple ID key
Want to know what that plant is? With our Simple Key, you can identify over 1,200 common native and naturalized New England plants! Observe closely, collect a sample or take a photo, answer some questions, and narrow down to the correct identification.
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Join our online community of plant enthusiasts. Find friends, share your plant sightings, get help with plant identification, collaborate on field surveys, and develop checklists of plants for particular sites you are exploring.
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For experienced botanists
Identify over 3,000 New England plants by using either our multiple-access Full Key or our Dichotomous Key to families, genera, and species. Also learn about subspecies and varieties native to our region.
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Useful teaching resources
Go Botany encourages informal, self-directed education in botany for science students, and beginning and amateur botanists. Professors, teachers, and environmental educators can share curricula and teaching ideas.
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Plant of the day: Carex canescens hoary sedge
The densely flowered spikes of hoary sedge resemble small pinecones. There are two subspecies in our region, Carex canescens ssp. canescens, and C. canescens ssp. disjuncta, the second having a longer inflorescence with the spikes more widely spread.
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