How to use this site. The initial page is a current list of scientific names, of plants occurring within the park -- each name linked to a species by family. (Additional lists are included by common names or a list by Hawaiian names) If illustrations are available, thumbnail pictures on the family list pages link to enlarged photos.

Or, you can browse pages of illustrations arranged by family. Holding your curser on the image will pop up the plant name. (There, clicking on any image jumps to the enlarged photo).

Plate 1. Ferns - Filmy ferns to Sadleria ferns
Plate 2. Ferns - Hay-scented ferns to Marattiaceae
Plate 3. Ferns - Adder's tongue ferns to Lycopodium
Plate 4. Gymnosperms to Dicots, Pine to Dogbane Family
Plate 5. Dicots - Ginsing to Milkweed Family
Plate 6. Dicots - Aster Family
Plate 7. Dicots - Heliotrope to Lobelia
Plate 8. Dicots - Papaya to Ebony
Plate 9. Dicots - Pukiawe to Legumes
Plate 10. Dicots - African Violets to Hydrangea
Plate 11. Dicots - Laurels to Melastomes
Plate 12. Dicots - Breadfruit to Portulaca
Plate 13. Dicots - Protea to Rue family
Plate 14. Dicots - Sandalwood to Violets
Plate 15. Monocots - Agave to Sedges
Plate 16. Monocots - Grass to Ginger

The principal sources of the plants for this checklist are:

Medeiros, A.C., L. L. Loope, and C. G. Chimera. 1998. Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Haleakala Park. Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Tech. Report #120, Univ. of Hawai`i , Honolulu, Hawai`i .

Stemmermann, L., P. K. Higashino, and C. W. Smith. 1981. Haleakala National Park Crater District Resources Basic Inventory: Conifers and Flowering Plants. Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Tech. Report #38 and supplement, Univ. of Hawai`i , Honolulu, Hawai`i .

Herat, T., P. K. Higashino and C. W. Smith. 1981. Haleakala National Park Crater District Resources Basic Inventory: Ferns and Fern Allies. Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Tech. Report #39, Univ. of Hawai`i , Honolulu, Hawai`i .

Hoe, W. J. 1979. Haleakala National Park Crater District Resources Basic Inventory: Mosses. Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Tech. Report #33, and supplements, Univ. of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i .

Click here to view the Medeiros et al report 120 in pdf form.

Click here to view the Stemmerman et al report 38 in pdf form.

Click here to view the Herat et al report 39 in pdf form.

Click here to view the Hoe report 33 in pdf form.

Fern nomenclature follows: Palmer, Daniel. 2008. Hawai'i's Fern and Fern Allies. U. of Hawaii Press.

This page was developed from the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring website--an intranet site as yet not generally available to the public. The data are from a report on plants of Haleakala National Park dated November 20, 2009.

The NPS Inventorying and Monitoring site is a work in progress at this time. It is expected to be on line to the public in a couple more years.

An outstanding source of superb high-resolution Hawaiian plant images (by Forest and Kim Starr) is at site: http://www.hear.org/starr/images/?o=plants

This page is a work in progress. More illustrations will be added. Eventually it will be replaced by the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring website with live links to bibliographic sources for the records, and in some cases species distribution maps.

Learn more about the NPSpecies Inventorying and Monitoring Program.

National Park Service contacts: <harryb001@hawaii.rr.com> or <guy_hughes@nps.gov>
Page last updated 28 January 2013.