Plants of the National Park of American Samoa is an illustrated list of plants occurring within the park -- each name linked to a species by family. 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. With some browsers 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 and Fern Allies
Plate 2. Dicots - Acanthuraceae to Asteraceae
Plate 3. Dicots - Barringtoniaceae to Combretaceae
Plate 4. Dicots - Convolvulaceae to Euphorbiaceae
Plate 5. Dicots - Euphorbiaceae to Fabaceae
Plate 6. Dicots - Fabaceae to Lauraceae
Plate 7. Dicots - Malvaceae to Moraceae
Plate 8. Dicots - Moraceae to Rhamnaceae
Plate 9. Dicots - Rhizophoraceae to Rubiaceae
Plate 10. Dicots - Rutaceae to Verbenaceae
Plate 11. Monocots - Agavaceae to Pandanaceae
Plate 12. Monocots - Poaceae to Taccaceae

The principal sources of the plants listed here are from:

Ragone, Diane and David H. Lorence. 2006. Botanical and Ethnobotanical Inventories of the National Park of American Samoa. Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Tech. Report #170, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Hawai`i , Honolulu, Hawai`i . 98 pp.

Whistler, W. A. 1992. Botanical inventory of the proposed Ta'u Unit of the National Park of American Samoa. Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Tech. Report #83, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Hawai`i , Honolulu, Hawai`i . 99 pp.

Whistler, W. A. 1994. Botanical inventory of the proposed Tutuila Unit of the National Park of American Samoa. Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Tech. Report #87, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Hawai`i , Honolulu, Hawai`i . 142 pp.

Click here to view the Ragone and Lorence report in pdf form.

Click here to view the Whistler 1992 report in pdf form.

Click here to view the Whistler 1994 report in pdf form.

This website was developed from the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring website -- now publically available for searches at https://irma.nps.gov/App/Species/Search. The data are from a report on marine invertebrates of Kalapapa National Historical Park dated 4 September 2008.

Learn more about the NPSpecies Inventorying and Monitoring Program.

National Park Service contacts: <harryb001@hawaii.rr.com> or <tavita_togia@nps.gov>

Page last updated 3 March 2015.