Total-PlantAn Online Native Plant Photo Library

摘要

Tim Lukaszewski and Paul Preston have been hiking, botanizing, and photographing native plants for many years. Married for 35 years, Tim is a retired physician and Paul is retiring as a nonprofit director. Although they are neither career botanists nor professional photographers, both men are passionate about plants.In the course of photographing and keying out plants in the field, they would often try to confirm plant identification by looking at photos in books or online. Finding their resources were generally limited to depicting flowers meant often they wereleft wondering. Having identified this gap in information their solution was to compile a photo set for individual native plants showing habitat, the entire plant, as well as individual photos showing leaves, flowers, and fruit. The Total-Plant databasegrew out of an attempt to organize their thousands of native plant photos and keep track of which plants they'd seen, where they saw them, and which photos were still needed.