New field guide lists every wild plant on Saint Martin
Native Plants
If you've ever hiked the hills of Sint Maarten and wondered what that vine or shrub was called, this book is the first complete answer, covering every native and naturalized plant species on the island in one place.
A botanist named Franklin Axelrod spent years cataloging every vascular plant, think ferns, flowering plants, and trees, that grows wild on the small Caribbean island shared by Sint Maarten and Saint Martin. The result is a 117-page guide that lists and organizes all of them systematically, so anyone from a visiting scientist to a curious hiker can identify what's growing around them.
Key Findings
The book serves as a complete systematic checklist (vademecum) of vascular plant species found on Sint Maarten/Saint Martin
Published as Sida, Botanical Miscellany 70 by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas Press, 117 pages with index
Available in hardcover for $25 USD, intended as a reference work for botanists, conservationists, and naturalists
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A new book catalogs every known vascular plant species growing on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, giving botanists and residents a complete reference to the island's flora for the first time in this systematic form.
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A Systematic Vademecum to the Vascular Plants of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin
Franklin S. Axelrod. 16 June 2026. A Systematic Vademecum to the Vascular Plants of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin. Sida, Bot. Misc. 70. (ISBN-13: 978-1-889878-84-3, hardcover). Botanical Research Insti...
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