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What this album hopes to achieve
This album aims to serve as a tool if you need help in identifying plants, trees or animals you took a picture of.There is a wealth of information in the SP community, and some members are very skillful in this area. This page tries to bring together those needing help with those in the know.
Feel free to add your pictures (specify where the picture was taken) if you just need that last bit of advice in deciding between two subspecies, or if you have absolutely no idea what you took a picture of, and please detach them once you are satisfied with the answers received. (Anything that's identified down to the genus shouldn't count as "unidentified", at least not after some time has passed. There are lots of cases where even a professional can't tell the exact species, especially from a photograph.)
To improve the chances of successful identification in the case of flowers, it is a good idea for the pictures to include both bloom and foliage. Including the size of the bloom and the height of the plant in the description helps. The location and time of year are helpful, too. Context also helps - examples: "Along a stream running through mountain hemlock and meadows", "at the timber line", or "under ponderosa pines".
And you experts, please stop by from time to time to help out others by commenting on the pictures themselves. Thank you!
Also share with others what books, websites or other resources you use to identify plants and wildlife.
Some basic advice
Some basic advice on identifying plants from nartreb.If you know the common name, the easiest thing is to type that in to Google or Wikipedia.
If you don't know the common name, you have to learn to identify major families. For example:
Resources
Resources on the web
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
South America
Resources in print
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
South America
Acknowledgements / credits / thanks
For their help in identifying flora and fauna: A Bit, alpbabe, Anya Jingle, Arthur Digbee, b., BazZ, birdny, Bob Sihler, Mrs. dh3 and donhaller3, Ejnar Fjerdingstad, Elisabeth, franza mosco, hfaust, hiltrud.liu, Kerstin, klwagar, Lolli, MOCKBA, mrh, nartreb, ochoco, peterbud, tarol.10 successful identifications were made in the first 3 days of this album - thanks to all!
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