Thundersnow Interactive and the Southern Weed Science Society are proud to announce the Interactive Encyclopedia of North American Weeds, Version 3.0. Four years of development have produced an all new high-resolution, comprehensive teaching and reference software program on weed, crop, and plant identification. The Windows DVD-ROM contains interactive tutorials on plant identification, animations, hundreds of custom illustrations, and over 2,400 photographs. Upgraded to 1024 x 768 XGA resolution, the program has been completely rebuilt with new high resolution, full color photographs and illustrations. Now covering 447 weed and crop species with complete descriptions, distribution maps for the continental United States (including Alaska) and Canada, habitats, and descriptions for 67 plant families. There are illustrations and World of Weeds history articles on many of the weeds. A unique graphical interactive key to all the weeds in the program is now included. An illustrated glossary of 565 botanical terms is a program in itself! The nearly three hours of professionally narrated interactive lessons on the principles of plant taxonomy and morphology make this a comprehensive resource for everyone interested in plants. An excellent resource for farmers, ranchers, gardeners, horticulturalists, groundskeepers, botanists, and plant lovers everywhere! This title is used by high schools, colleges and universities, and corporations around the world as a training and reference tool in the biological and agricultural sciences. ThunderSnow Interactive developed much of the content, coordinated content experts, digitized the media assets and produced the program. Version 1 of this title won the "Labor of Love" award at the 1996 Asymetrix Worldwide developers conference.
Click here to view a demonstration of the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) home page from the Interactive Encyclopedia of North American Weeds DVD-ROM. We have duplicated the DVD-ROM as closely as possible within the limits of DHTML.
Click here to view the weed homepage demo!
You must have Netscape 4.07 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or later to view these pages. Broadband connection recommended.
New features in Version 3.0 include:
- 85 additional weed and crop species (447 species total)
- Over 2,450 full-color photographs
- Detailed descriptions for every weed and crop
- Habitat key for each plant species
- Illustrated glossary of 565 botanical terms
- Presentation maker for user-customized navigation
- Interactive identification key to all weed and crop species
- Grass collar illustrations
- U.S. and Canada distribution maps
- Interactive educational quizzes and games
- Descriptions of 67 plant families
- Professionally narrated lessons
- World of Weeds: History of weedsDownload a list of weeds and crops in the program by common name:
(Adobe Acrobat pdf file)Download a list of weeds and crops in the program by scientific name:
(Adobe Acrobat pdf file)Download a list of weeds and crops in the program by plant family:
(Adobe Acrobat pdf file)
Click here for a list of places to purchase the program:
New lower price! Cost is $59.95 (US). Upgrades from Version 2.0/2.1 are $49.95 each (Call, or mail in the front cover of the insert booklet from Version 2.0 or 2.1 to qualify). Postage and handling is $5.00 per copy in the U.S. and $10.00 per copy for international orders. Call or write for large quantity orders or information on becoming a reseller. Requires Windows 98 2nd ed/Me/2000 + SP3*, Windows XP (SP1 and SP2), or Windows Vista**. Mininum hardware requirements are a 500 mhz processor (1 Ghz or faster recommended), 128 MB of RAM (256 MB or more recommended), DVD-ROM drive, sound card, and 1024 x 768 XGA resolution at 65,000 (16-bit) colors (16 million, 24/32-bit colors recommended). The program will run from the DVD drive, or it can be installed on your hard drive and require 2.3 Gb of free space.For 'traditionalists': The Southern Weed Science Society also publishes the Weed ID guide in book form! Call the SWSS at (217) 352-4212 for information and ordering.
* For use in Windows 2000 you must install Service Pack 3 or later.
** Not compatible with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (64-bit
version) or the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. We expect to have a 64-bit Windows compatible version by the fall of 2008.Click here for Vista compatibility information.
September 2005: Click here to download the free update to Version 3.0!
Note: We produced this program as a donated gift to the SWSS and do not receive any compensation. We cannot accept orders at ThunderSnow Interactive.
