LR3 'Keyword' and Microsoft 'Tags' issue

I keep LR3 and my catalog on my main computer (a desktop) at home.  While away from home taking pictures (which is most of the time) I view my pictures (directly from the SDHC card) in either Windows or FastStone Image Viewer.  Since most of my pictures are of plants I need to ID the plants and get that ID onto the photo pretty quickly or the information gets lost.
Over the past couple of months I’ve ID’d many pictures by using Windows and filling in the ‘Tags’ field.  But I’ve just discovered that LR does not see that field so I can’t import the tags into the LR ‘Keyword’ field.  Have I missed something or have I wasted a lot of time?
Thankfully it’s not a lot of data and I can manually read the Windows ‘Tags’ field and retype it into the LR ‘Keyword’.  But I need a solution moving forward.
How can I keyword or tag my pictures in the field using only a laptop without LR so that the data is then usable or transferrable to the LR ‘Keyword’ field.
Thanks for your help...be gentle.
Andrew

John:
Here's my process...
After I shoot in the field I go back to my laptop and view the pictures in Windows Explorer.  At this point I either have to look up the name of the plant in the picture or take the information from some other source.  When I know the name, usually the genus, species and common name, I ender in the 'Tags" field that appears at the bottom of the screen along with the other data (date taken, tating, size, author, camera maker etc., etc.)  I then save this to the jpeg photo but not the NEF ( everything is shot jpeg+nef). 
When I've filled a card I edit out those photos that are not in any way usable.  The remaining pictures (both the JPEG and NEF) are then copied to my archive on my desktop hard drive.  Once I've copied over the files and backed them up to another drive I then open LR3 on the desktop and use the import function to add the pictures to my catalog.
When I've done this in the past I thought LR took the informaiton in the 'Tags' field and during the import process LR moved the data from the "Tags" and put it into the LR 'Keyword' field for the related picture in the catalog.  I could have simply imagined that this was  taking place and I haven't had a chance to verify that it was happening on earlier imports.  All I know is that on my last import it didn't happen.
So...I'm either dreaming and this never really worked or it's not working any more.
That's where I am at the moment...excpet that I need a fool proof way to make my annotations on the pictures before the make it over to lightromm and make sure these annotations (Genus, speciies etc.) can be added in the field and then show up when the import is done.
Hope this is clear...if not I'll try again or harder.
Thanks for bearing with me.
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