Images
More than 20,000 high resolution plant images were gathered for this project. Of these, about 11,000 were selected for the final key and file sizes were reduced for fast display.
Images were chosen with a preference for New Zealand material and to represent a range of features for each species, such as:
- Population
- Habit
- Adult plant
- Seedling
- Foliage
- Leaf (upper and lower)
- Stem
- Branch
- Inflorescence
- Flower
- Fruit
- Seed
- Specialised characters (e.g., spines, tendrils, bark)
Different stages of maturity and close-up photography is included. Most images are of live plants but herbarium specimens and line drawings are also used. The key includes captions for all features and acknowledges the source of each individual image.
All five authors of the weeds key provided images and Trevor James and Sheldon Navie made the greatest contributions. The remaining images were obtained from a wide range of sources and every effort has been made to obtain permission to use them or to ensure that they are copyright free.
However, treat all images in the Weed key as copyright to the original photographer.
Further images are welcome – please contact Murray Dawson for details.
The following is a partial list of those who have kindly contributed images:
Authors of key
- Murray Dawson and Peter Heenan (Landcare Research)
- Sheldon Navie (Australia)
- Trevor James (AgResearch)
- Paul Champion (NIWA)
New Zealand contributors:
- Aleki Taumoepeau, David Burnett, John Clayton, Paula Reeves, Rohan Wells, Tracey Edwards (NIWA, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research)
- Andreas Juergens, Taina Witt and others (2006 Marsden Fund project – Landcare Research and HortResearch)
- Antje Wittmann
- Ben Minehan (Marlborough District Council)
- Brian T. Coffey (Brian T. Coffey and Associates Limited)
- Carolyn Lewis (Weedbusters)
- Chris Ecroyd (NZFRI National Forestry Herbarium)
- Chris Winks, Colin Muerk, Gary Houliston, Kerry Ford, Simon Fowler (Landcare Research); Ellex Stewart (2009 RSNZ Teacher Fellowship at Landcare Research); Helen Greenep, Jane Barton, Peter N. Johnson, Sabrina B. Malcolm (ex Landcare Research)
- Clayson Howell, Anna Paltridge, Chris Edkins, Dan O'Halloran, John Barkla, Tom Belton and others (Department of Conservation)
- Colin Ogle
- Dan Blanchon (Unitec Institute of Technology)
- Dave Alker (Horizons Regional Council)
- Gemma Bradfield, Rob McCaw and others (Environment Canterbury)
- Graeme Jane (Bay of Plenty)
- Heidi Pene and Philip Mabin (Environment Waikato) and Jeff Jeffrey (ex Environment Waikato)
- Ian Bell
- Jack Hobbs (Auckland Botanic Gardens)
- Jeremy Rolfe
- Jonathan Boow (Auckland Council); Alistair MacArthur and the late Rod Smart (ex Auckland Regional Council)
- Jon Sullivan
- Kate McCombs (Christchurch City Council)
- Ken Wright (Tasman District Council)
- Manaaki Whenua Press, publisher of the Flora of New Zealand series
- Melanie Newfield and others (MAF Biosecurity New Zealand)
- Naturally Native NZ Plants
- Peter O'Hara (Wellington Fuchsia Society)
- Peter Thomson (Timaru District Council)
- Phil Bendle
- Philip Garnock-Jones (Victoria University of Wellington)
- Randall Milne (Environment Southland)
- Robert Lamberts (Plant & Food Research)
- Roy Edwards (Lincoln University)
- Tony Foster (Bushmansfriend and Bushmansfriend.blogspot)
- Trevor Cheeseman (Auckland Branch of the Cactus & Succulent Society of New Zealand)
- Walter Stahel (Environment Bay of Plenty)
International contributors:
- Al Schneider (Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Ferns, & Trees and USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database)
- Albert C. Perdeck, Hugh Wilson, James Manhart (Vascular Plant Image Library)
- Ann Bove (Vermont Water Quality Division, USA)
- Amy Richard, Ann Murray, Vic Ramey and others (University of Florida / IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, USA)
- Bart Wursten (Flora of Zimbabwe website)
- Brushwood Nursery, USA
- Carole Ritchie, Clarence A. Rechenthin, J. Scott Peterson, Jennifer Anderson, Jose Hernandez, Larry Allain, Mark W. Skinner, Norman Melvin, Steve Hurst, Susan McDougall, Suzanne Foster and others (USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database)
- Caroline Brown, USA (www.carolinebrown.com)
- Christian Dietz, Germany (www.utricularia.net)
- Christopher Briand (Salisbury University Arboretum, USA)
- Forest Starr and Kim Starr (Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR), Hawaii)
- Gerald Carr (Oregon State University, USA)
- J. Katie Barndt (Landscape Plant Recognition, University of Washington, USA)
- Jackie Miles and Max Campbell (Bega Valley, NSW, Australia)
- Jan De Laet (plantsystematics.org)
- Jeff Irons (horticulturist, UK)
- Kazuo Yamasaki (Department of Pharmacognosy, Hiroshima University, Japan)
- Kenneth Walker (horticulturist, California, USA)
- Leo Michels, Germany (www.imagines-plantarum.de)
- Mary Barkworth and illustrators of the Manual of Grasses for North America and Flora of North America grass volumes (Intermountain Herbarium, Utah State University, USA)
- Patrick J. Alexander (www.polyploid.net and USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database)
- Paul Busselen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- Paul L. Redfearn (Ozarks Regional Herbarium of Missouri State University, USA)
- Richard A. Howard Image Collection, Elaine Haug, G.A. Cooper, Pedro Acevedo-Rodriguez (Plant Image Collection, Smithsonian Institution, USA)
- Robert Gibbons (APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine, USDA). In: Kirkbride, J.H., Jr., C.R. Gunn, and M.J. Dallwitz. 2006. Family Guide for Fruits and Seeds, vers. 1.0. URL: http://nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/OnlineResources/frsdfam/Index.cfm. Accessed February 17, 2010.)
- Sandy Lloyd (Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia)
- Thomas Schöpke (Plant Image Gallery and Vascular Plant Image Library)
- Thomas G. Barnes (Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky, USA)
- Tim McCall (Timag Nursery)
- Virtual Herbarium of the Western Mediterranean (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
- Wayne Boucher (www.cambridge2000.com)
- Numerous contributors to Wikimedia Commons