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Kay Yatskievych Kay Yatskievych
Managing Editor, Flora of North America

Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA

office phone: + 1-314-577-9524
fax: +1-314-577-9596
email: Kay.Yatskievych@mobot.org

B.A., Indiana University, 1986

General Research Interests
  • Floristics of Indiana
  • Photography and visual presentation of information to identify plants

    Research Emphases
  • As Managing Editor of the Flora of North America project, my main responsibilities are the pre-press production of three volumes per year. This includes working with the lead, taxon, and technical editors of the volume to get the text submitted and working with the artists to get the art completed simultaneously with the text.
  • My major area of personal research is the floristics of Indiana. I am nearing completion of the Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Indiana, which will bring together in one place information about all of the plants recorded for Indiana. This is the first comprehensive list of species since 1982 and will have over 400 additional species records. Each entry will include the source of the record for Indiana, synonyms used in Indiana publications, and several other pieces of information.

    Public Outreach
  • I was a founding member of the Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society and the Brown County Spring Wildflower Count. I continue to do public outreach for both of these organizations. I also lead several other wildflower-identification hikes and give numerous slide presentations about the wildflowers of Indiana.
  • My interest in visual presentation of information to identify plants has led me to collaborate on an interactive key for the web (www.discoverlife.org). Over 1000 of my photos are up on the site.

    Selected Publications

  • Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volumes 1–9. 1995–2005. Missouri Botanical Garden Press.
  • 2003, Apr 15. John Pickering, Roland Kays, Albert Meier, Susan Andrew, and Kay Yatskievych. “The Appalachians.” In Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, Patricio Robles Gil, John Pilgrim, Gustavo Fonseca, Thomas Brooks, William R. Konstant. Wilderness: Earth’s Last Wild Places. Washington, DC: CEMEX.
  • 2000. Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers. Indiana University Press.
  • Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Indiana. In prep.

    This page was last revised 04/19/06.

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