How to Use the Portfolio
The photographs of every wildflower featured in the portfolio are arranged alphabetically by its scientific name into ten galleries.
If you do not know a plant’s scientific name, you can look up the plant’s common name in the index of either the Peterson or the Newcomb guide. For example, suppose you want to find to find photos of blue phlox. Look up blue phlox in the index. Then go to the indicated page. There you will find that guide’s treatment of blue phlox. That treatment will include the scientific name, Phlox divaricata. The treatment will also include a helpful line drawing and a description.
Below these directions is a link to the galleries of photographs. Each gallery has two words that function like guide words at the top of a page in a dictionary. Select a gallery based on your plant’s first (generic) name, in our example, Phlox. Open the appropriate gallery and advance through the photographs until you arrive at Phlox divaricata.
With each photo there are buttons for getting more information about the photograph, for downloading and sharing the photograph, or for starting a slide show. Users can even download the entire portfolio!
The photographs are free and without copyright. Please credit Lincoln Nutting, the Eckert Herbarium, and Buffalo State University.
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About Lincoln Nutting
Born in Wellesley, MA, and educated at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Lincoln Nutting, Linc to his friends, came to Western New York in 1941 to work in the chemical industry in Niagara Falls. In his spare time, he pursued his interests in nature and photography, earning respect and praise for his photographs of insects. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Nutting assembled an informal portfolio of over 500 Kodachrome slides of common local wildflowers and shrubs. That portfolio became Flowering Plants of Western New York State. Linc maintained active memberships in the Buffalo Audubon Society, the Buffalo Ornithological Society, the Niagara Frontier Botanical Society, the Central/Western New York chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Mr. Nutting died in 2014.
The Eckert Herbarium and Department of Biology thanks Bruce Fox, former University Photographer, and Kaylene Waite, Senior Graphic and Web Designer, for their assistance in the creation of Flowering Plants of Western New York.