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USDA Plants Database API in R

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posted on 2023-11-30, 08:11 authored by Scott Chamberlain
<p>The USDA maintains a database of plant information - <a href="http://plants.usda.gov/java/">USDA Plants Database</a> - containing trait data, some of its life history. This resource is an independently created RESTful API for that data.</p> <p>source code: <a href="https://github.com/sckott/usdaplantsapi/">https://github.com/sckott/usdaplantsapi/</a> base URL: <a href="https://plantsdb.xyz">https://plantsdb.xyz</a></p> <p>The API, and open issues for bugs/feature requests can be found in the GitHub repository.</p> <p>This tool can be used from the command line, R, Ruby, Python, a browser, etc. </p><div><br>Resources in this dataset:</div><br><ul><li><p>Resource Title: Source code.</p> <p>File Name: Web Page, url: <a href="https://github.com/sckott/usdaplantsapi/">https://github.com/sckott/usdaplantsapi/</a> </p><p>GitHub repository containing the API and open issues for bugs/feature requests</p></li></ul><p></p>

Funding

Natural Resources Conservation Service

History

Data contact name

Chamberlain, Scott

Data contact email

scott@ropensci.org

Publisher

GitHub

Temporal Extent Start Date

2016-01-01

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  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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ISO Topic Category

  • biota

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

computer software; databases; vascular plants; mosses and liverworts; lichens; natural resources; land management; information exchange; farms; application programming interface

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

Chamberlain, Scott (2018). USDA Plants Database API in R. GitHub.

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