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Join our online community of plant enthusiasts. 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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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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Go Botany encourages informal, self-directed education for science students, and beginning and amateur botanists. Professors, teachers, and educators can share curricula and teaching ideas.
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Plant of the day: Hypericum gentianoides — orange-grass St. John's-wort
The common name, orange-grass St. John's-wort, stems from the faint odor of citrus or peaches that you can smell when you crush the leaves. This species is an annual.
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