On-going floristic studies, even in such relatively accessible and presumably well-known areas as the Boise Front, can result in wide diversity of results with both scientific and societal ramifications.  Significant range extensions of native species, possible taxonomic novelties in need of further investigation, and a variety of other worthwhile research questions have come to light as a result of the current floristic survey, which itself provides a slice-of-time status report that can be used to determine long-term trends when compared to earlier records, as well as serving as a baseline for comparison with future surveys.  In the Boise Front, these trends include an under-acknowledged decline in native forb diversity, a continual rain of novel exotic species in various stages of naturalizing, and the on-going degradation and loss of quality shrub-steppe habitat.  The floristic work has also triggered a closer look at the rarity status of several declining native species, which were subsequently added to the Idaho Rare Plant List, and one potential invasive was treated as an Early Detection, Rapid Response Idaho Noxious Weed.  These results are regularly brought to the attention of biologists in local, state, and federal land management agencies, and also communicated to the general public with the goal of triggering an appreciation of our unique local flora.