Plants

Identification

I’m available to identify flowering plants from grasslands of the Southeast and Midwest of the USA. I have identified plants for projects at the University of Florida, University of Central Florida, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, and NGOs.
Groups I don’t do:
Grasses and trees

Contracts with less than 250 specimens can be done directly with me. Anything bigger, time-sensitive, or with a larger scope will go through the University of Florida, where I am employed, and will be done as part of my day job. I’m unavailable from January to the end of May due to the field season.

Cost: $.50 per specimen for students without institutional or grant support $1 per specimen for everyone else. For contracts over 450 specimens, the price will change to $23 hourly, and payment will go to UF. All specimens must have 3 photos( flowers, leaves, and stems), be organized to family, and have a unique ID with locality and date, and with metadata entered in an excel sheet.

Please send all specimens of the groups or taxa that you are requesting identification services for, and not just a subset of representative specimens. You will get back: identification, a spreadsheet with genera, species, authority, and the taxon concept/identification key used. For publications, giving me authorship is not required for surveys, but my name and affiliation must appear in methods or in acknowledgments. For publications involving any taxonomic work, let’s talk.