Ornamental Horticulture Plant Identification

Paul R. Fantz, Ph.D., Professor of Horticultural Science, NC State University.
Paul was project leader, set parameters for text, wrote & edited text, & provided photos from those utilized in the foundation courses HS 211 & HS 212, Ornamental Plants I & II respectively.

Jessie Turner, Landscape Designer, ASLA, Lappas + HavenerLandscape Architects, PA, Durham, NC.
Jesse was a student in the Institute of Design that developed a prototype (2000) for the website while enrolled in HS 211 & 212. Jessie's prototype was used as a proposal to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) as a tool for students learning the plants. He was instrumental in the conceptual development of the website, its functionality, and designing the layout for data display. He wrote some text and provided a number of plant photographs.

Laura Wright, student candidate pursuing a B.S. in Horticultural Science, NC State University.
Laura was instrumental in converting 3 mm slides into digital format, modifying them for size and clarity, adding them to the slide database of slides, and incorporating them into the correct species location. She wrote much text, and provided a number of photographs.

Alice Russell, Ph.D., former Assistant Professor of Horticultural Science, NC State University.
Alice participated in HS 211 & 212 while earning her doctorate at NC State University. Alice was an excellent plant photographer, and upon her medical retirement, donated four notebooks of plant slides to be used in plant educational functions of HS 211-212. Many of the photographs used in the database are hers.

Acknowledgements

Scott Niven, Business & Technology Applications Specialists, CALS Information Technology, NC State University.
Scott provided skills in solving computer problems that arose during the project, provided advise and assistance to the project leader, and wrote the program for removing a subset of the database for the CPP study disc project.

Alexander Belskis, Student Webmaster, CALS Information Technology, NC State University
Alex worked with Jesse Turner in designing and writing the original database program for storing data, and administrative tools for adding data, editing data, and adding plant photos.

Alexander Krings, Ph.D. Curator of the NCSU Herbarium, Dept. of Plant Biology, NC State University.
Alex worked with Jessie Turner in providing assistance for developing the database prototype.