We provide the provisional checklist of vascular plants of Alaska as the most complete starting list for an update to the Flora of Alaska. Names on this list have not yet been vetted by the Taxonomic Committee. Once vetted by the Taxonomic Committee, the list will be updated and vetted status indicated. However, even names vetted by the Taxonomic Committee are subject to future changes as no checklist is truly final. For information on the development of the provisional list, please see the About the Provisional Checklist section.
The Provisional Vascular Checklist contains 2,773 accepted names of vascular genera, species, microspecies, and infraspecies that are known to occur in Alaska. The checklist also includes 67 provisionally accepted names. We include 6,338 synonyms and spelling variants and 220 misapplied names. This checklist is searchable by both all names and accepted names. The “Status” column indicates the relationship of the name to the accepted name.
Instructions
Use the filters and search boxes below to explore the checklist. The “All Names” field includes all names that have been applied or misapplied in Alaska for each accepted name. The “Accepted Name” field shows accepted vascular taxa. The “Status” field shows the relationship between the applied/misapplied name and accepted name. The source field contains links for the material from which a name was accepted.
Both name fields can be searched at once by typing queries in the main search block above the table. Other fields can be search for in the main search block as well. For example, life-forms can be searched for by typing “tree”, “shrub”, “dwarf shrub”, “forb”, “graminoid”, etc., into either the main search block or the “Growth Form” field.
To download the results of a query, select “All” in the number of rows and then click the desired download format. Queries that display thousands of rows may take several minutes to load.