New checklist catalogs every vascular plant in the Americas

Mongabay
Dec 28, 2017, 3:42 pm230 pts
Scientists have compiled a list of every known vascular plant found in North and South America, providing a new tool to understand how species are distributed throughout the two continents. “This is the first time we have a complete overview of the plants of the Americas,” Carmen Ulloa, a botanist with the…

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