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PM Intranet: Plant Fact Sheets and Plant Guides Coordination Page

Updated 11/16/2009

Plant Fact Sheets and Guides are a coordinated effort between the Plant Materials Program and the National Plant Data Center, with input from other cooperating organizations.  For more information on this effort, contact Mark Skinner by email or by phone at 225-775-6280.

What is the difference between Plant Fact Sheets and Plant Guides?

Fact Sheets are one page (front and back) species overviews, include color photos, and are often used to provide general information about a conservation species to a landowner.  Guides contain more detail and typically describe the entire process of establishment, management, and production of a species; they can be several pages long.  Guides may also contain details on seed or plant production for growers.  Go to the Plant Fact Sheets/Plant Guides to see completed Fact Sheets and Guides already on the Web.

Plant Fact Sheets & Plant Guide Templates

Download the Plant Fact Sheet template or Plant Guide template depending on which type of document you are preparing. Contact the Norman A. Berg National Plant Materials Center if you are with another agency and we can add your organization’s logo to the template header for your Fact Sheet or Guide.

If you encounter any problems with the files provided on this page, please contact Leslie Glass at 701-250-4330.

These documents require  Word.

Plant Fact Sheet Template (Word; 128 KB) Revised Nov 2009
Plant Guide Template (Word; 106 KB) Revised Nov 2009

Guidelines

Instructions for how to compile Plant Guides and Plant Fact Sheets are available here.

These documents require Acrobat Reader
 
General Guidelines for Preparing Plant Fact Sheets and Plant Guides (PDF; 416 KB) Revised Nov 2009
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for the development of Plant Fact Sheets (PFS) and Plant Guides (PG).  It contains important information that will assist in the development of documents that are accessible and searchable.
 

Current Needs

We need contributors—for high priority Plant Guides/Fact Sheets and good quality plant photos/slides. Please contact Scott Peterson at 225-775-6280 x10  for more information.

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