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Native Plant Trust: Go Botany

Discover thousands of New England plants

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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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Abies balsamea

Plant of the day: Abies balsameabalsam fir

Balsam fir is most memorable for its tall, dark spires that grace the north woods of New England, and for its sweet, turpentine smell created by the abundant resin in its bark and needles. It is widely used as a Christmas tree and for wreaths. The pungent resin yields Canad ...

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