36 PLANTS Advanced Search
General Instructions
The PLANTS Advanced Search is designed to give our users complete flexibility in displaying and downloading the data. A few general hints follow:
* You can select more than one value within a field by using the Control key.
* “Any” in the search means that any values will be reported in the results; it is equivalent to “all.”
* The general interaction of field values is OR within a field and AND between fields. If you select two States from the State and Province field you will get the plants that occur in either state, and if additionally you select L48 Native in Native Status you will get only plants that occur in either of those two states and are native to L48, the lower 48 U.S. states.
o However, the interaction between State and Province and County—two different fields—is AND so that you can select states as well as counties from surrounding states.
* The interaction between PLANTS Core Data Fields and Characteristics Data Fields is AND, therefore selecting criteria for any Characteristics Data Fields will restrict results to the 2500 or so important conservation plants for which we have these data.
* We have attribute data such as Growth Habits or Characteristics Data only for Accepted names, except for the Legal Status fields. If legal status such as protection or prohibition is attached to a name that we consider a synonym, that status is reported with the synonym, not its Accepted counterpart.
* You must display a field if you want to be able to sort on it.
* Requests for too much information will tax our server, be slow to appear, and may overwhelm your browser.
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