Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Contributions to a flora of New York State 9. This book classifies and describes the plant species of New York state belonging to the division Pinophyta, also known as the gymnosperms.
Conifers represent the largest gymnosperm class, and include seven families.
Each family is fully described and further divided into genus and species. Ecological, distributional, medical, and economic information on each plant species is provided. Habitat references, flowering times, pertinent synonyms, variations, and botanical characteristics specific to New York plants rather than to entire species are also included. Schematic illustrations and keys are provided to facilitate the identification of the specimens. Distribution maps, plotted by counties, are provided with species of seed plants, ferns, mosses, and lichens.