Yet another reason I’m fortunate to be a learner and teacher in 2010 when these sorts of amazing resources are coming online for the betterment of humanity and the cosmos…

About — The Plant List: “The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1, released in December 2010, aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts). It does not include algae or fungi. Version 1 contains 1,244,871 million scientific plant names of which 298,900 are accepted species names. It includes no vernacular or common plant names.”

I hope this takes off. What a great resource.

Take that, Nicholas Carr.