Revision of the on-line

Atlas of Vascular Plants

of Utah

Leila Shultz

Utah State University

Original website

Contains static images of

species described since

1988

Approx 73000 records

Representing 2,435 species

http://www.nr.usu.edu/Geography-Department/utgeog/utvatlas/family/agav/agut.html

Addition of species originally

included in appendix

399 species to add using Utah State Herbarium records

Welsh descriptions

Utah Heritage data

UVSC data

Updated nomenclature

Compared all 2835 records against the NRCS

PLANTS database.

121 of 2835 records (4%) had no corresponding

record in the NRCS database for Utah.

• 21 – errors or orthographic variants in the NRCS dbf

• 17 – species missing from the NRCS dbf for Utah

• 70 – errors or orthographic variant changes in our data

• 9 – name changes in our data

• 4 – spelling differences, ok in both tables

EXPLANATION FOR 121 OF 2835

DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN OUR DATA AND

NRCS DATA

Updated nomenclature (cont.)

Corrections were made to our data

Suggestions for changes were sent to NRCS

NRCS data incorporated into our tables:

Plant codes

Common names

Name changes

464 of 2835 (16%)

UVSC Lat/Lon

Data

UVSC Township/Range

Data

Utah Heritage

(species on our

list)

Utah Heritage

– all species

UTC

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