Special Achievements

Special Achievement Award to David Boufford and Ray Angelo

In October 2012, the New England Botanical Club honored David E. Boufford and Ray Angelo with a Special Achievement Award for their long-term and valuable compilation, the Atlas of the Flora of New England. Based on herbarium data and exhaustive research, the Atlas brings together current information on the county-level distribution of plant taxa growing outside of cultivation in the six New England states of the northeastern United States. Dot maps, synonymies, nativity status, and habitat information are also provided for thousands of taxa. The first installment of the Atlas was published in Rhodora in 1996, and publication continues in Phytoneuron and through continual updates. This impressive reference work is extremely useful for botanists interested in the flora of New England and beyond. The Atlas and related documents can be found on our NE Flora webpage.