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 Samoan 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 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. DRAFT. 101 pp mimeo. Cooperative Parks Study Unit. UH Manoa. View draft as a pdf file.

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. To download their report click here.

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

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

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 marine invertebrates of Kalapapa National Historical Park dated 4 September 2008.

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.

Learn more about the NPSpecies Inventorying and Monitoring Program.

National Park Service contacts: <bryan_harry@partner.nps.gov> or <larry_basch@nps.gov>
Page last updated 23 September 2008.