About the Plant Atlas
Florida has over 4,700 species of native or naturalized plants in Florida, including over 4,300 species of vascular plants and over 400 species of bryophytes (plants known only from cultivation are not included). The Atlas of Florida Plants is a joint effort by the Institute for Systematic Botany, the University of South Florida, and the USF Water Institute to provide a comprehensive searchable database of plants in the state of Florida. This website also provides access to the USF Herbarium, which houses more than 300,000 specimens from around the world (about 2/3 of these are databased and available online).
Institute for Systematic Botany
The Institute for Systematic Botany of the Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology Department at the University of South Florida was established in 1990 to promote basic research in plant systematics and to coordinate research, educational and service programs in plant systematics.
Recent Plant Photos
Species Search
Perform a quick search to find plant species of interest by using the fields here. Or, you may perform more technical and advanced searches by clicking Advanced Species Search button, below.
Guide to the Mosses of Central Florida
This guide has been prepared as an adjunct to the Atlas of Florida Plants and presently focuses on the common mosses of central Florida. Currently a work in progress—please send corrections and suggestions to Frederick B. Essig at essig@usf.edu.
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Herbarium Specimen Search
Atlas News & Announcements
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Plant Atlas Development Team
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Outside Links
Our curated list of botanical and educational websites/resources.
How to Link to the Plant Atlas
The Plant Atlas has been designed to allow external websites to dynamically link to individual species and issue URL-based searches. This method allows you to link to the Atlas without knowing individual unique species identifiers.
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Use the following syntax to link to a species page on the Atlas:
https://dev.florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/species/Genus Species
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Search for species within a specific family (and link to family page) using this syntax:
https://dev.florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/search/?KeywordCategory=family&KeywordSearch=Orchidaceae
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Use the following syntax to search for a specific genus:
https://dev.florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/search/?KeywordCategory=genus&KeywordSearch=Myosotis
Atlas Statistics
| Number of Native Species | 3,317 |
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| Number of Non-Native Species | 1,574 |
| Number of Plant Images | 19,022 |
| Number of Plant Species | 4,891 |
| Number of Specimens Digitized | 239,511 |