Researchers at MO
	Kay Yatskievych Publications Consultant, Missouri Botanical Garden Press 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	Photo by George Yatskievych
	Photography and visual presentation of information to identify plants Current Projects I am nearing the 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 published since 1982. The number of species currently recorded is 2,800. The Annotated Checklist will include approximately 3,150 species, subspecies, and variety records. Each entry will include the source of the record for Indiana, synonyms used in Indiana publications, and several other pieces of information. The other project that I am working on is Indiana Species Pages (ISPs). These are 8 1/2 × 11-inch PDFs that users can download and print out on their own printer (27 are posted on the list below). The main focus of ISPs is to provide an identification tool in a printable format that is richly illustrated with images. Text is minimal, usually only included when needed to provide sizes, color variability, or to point out important characters. Simplified terms are used to make the text easier to use by those with little or no botanical training. A county-level distribution map is also included in each ISP. Indiana Species Pages for wildflowers, vines, trees, and shrubs will be worked on initially. Eventually ISPs will also be developed for grasses, sedges, and ferns. In addition to the individual ISPs, a “Flower Finder” section of PDFs will be available to help users decide which ISP to look at for a plant in flower that they are trying to identify (example of flower finder. For some groups, character comparison pages will also be done (example of character comparison page. Indiana Species Pages Butomus umbellatus Dicentra cucullaria Hydrophyllum virginianum Callirhoe triangulata Dicentra spectabilis Microthlaspi perfoliatum Cardamine hirsuta Draba verna Phacelia covillei Cercis canadensis Ellisia nyctelea Phacelia purshii Chimaphila maculata Enemion biternatum Phacelia ranunculacea Claytonia virginica Erythronium albidum Planodes virginicum Commelina erecta Hydrophyllum appendiculatum Robinia pseudoacacia Cynoglossum virginianum Hydrophyllum canadense Scilla siberica Dicentra canadensis Hydrophyllum macrophyllum Thalictrum thalictroides Photographers who have contributed images to Indiana Species Pages Keith Board, Bremen, IN Steven Dunbar, Bloomington, IN Marc Evans, Spencer, IN Jodi Farrell Sparks, Marshall, IL Martha Fox, Bloomington, IN Scott Namestnik, North Liberty, IN Sam Postlethwait, West Lafayette, IN Catherine E. Steele, Bloomington, IN Kay Yatskievych, St. Louis, MO Additional information or comments For information about the source for the county records on the maps included in the Indiana Species Pages or to comment about any aspect of the ISPs. Please contact: Kay.Yatskievych@mobot.org. 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 other wildflower-identification hikes, participate in inventories and bioblitzes, and give numerous slide presentations about the plants of Indiana. I recently did a handout for my Special Presentation to the Indiana Academy of Science that compares the plant family names used for Indiana plants in Deam’s 1940 Flora of Indiana, Gleason and Cronquist’s 1991 Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, the volumes of the Flora of North America series, and the new system being actively worked on the the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. A PDF of that is available: Indiana Angiosperm Plant Families. Selected Publications Kay Yatskievych, Rebecca W. Dolan, Marcia E. Moore, Ruth T. King, and John T. Kartesz. 2008 (in prep). Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Indiana. Julian A. Steyermark, Paul E. Berry, Kay Yatskievych, and Bruce Holst. 1995–2005. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volumes 1–9. 1995–2005. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. John Pickering, Roland Kays, Albert Meier, Susan Andrew, and Kay Yatskievych. 2003, Apr 15. 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. Kay Yatskievych. 2000. Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers. Indiana University Press. This page was last revised 07/21/09.