Bishop Museum is offering an updated Botany Checklist of native and non-native plants of the islands — alive and extinct — as a free resource to the public.
The checklist of native and naturalized vascular plants in Hawaiʻi — compiled by botany researchers and technicians from the museum’s Natural Sciences Department — can be accessed and downloaded at the Plants of Hawaiʻi website.
The state’s museum of natural and cultural history checklist features up-to-date information about all 3,133 plants found in the islands from Hōlanikū, also known as Kure Atoll, to Hawai‘i Island.
It provides science-based information for naturalists, land managers, field biologists, scientists and anyone who seeks to understand the biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands…