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Introduction to the Green Kingdom - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/plantae.html
Brief introduction to the plant kingdom with links to further information. |
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National Plant Data Center - http://npdc.usda.gov/
Responsible for the PLANTS database, which focuses on the vascular and non-vascular plants of the United States and its territories, including checklists, species abstracts, distribution data, crop information, plants symbols and plant growth data. |
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Plant Resources Center of the University of Texas at Austin - http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/
Herbarium holding the world's largest collection of Texas plant specimens. Site offers history, and information about staff and facility use. |
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International Plant Names Index - http://www.ipni.org/
Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. |
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Plants For A Future - http://www.pfaf.org/
Information about a wide range of edible or otherwise useful plants, sorted by names and potential uses. Includes a searchable database. |
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CalFlora Database - http://www.calflora.org/
Searchable database all 8375 currently recognized vascular plants in California, including 20000 photographs. |
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Forestry Images - Plants - http://www.forestryimages.org/plants.cfm
Small collection of plant imagery, from University of Georgia. |
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Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names - http://garden-gate.prairienet.org/botrts.htm
Meanings of over 1000 root words used in scientific names of plants. |
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Discover Life - Plantae - http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Plantae/
Checklists, images, maps, and identification guides. |
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Hawaiian Native Plant Genera - http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/natives.htm
Images of hundreds of species of ferns, fern allies, and flowering plants, arranged by genus. |
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Dictionary of Botanical Epithets - http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html
Glossary of Latin terms used in species names, from abbreviatulus to yunnanensis. |
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herbaria@home - http://herbariaunited.org/atHome/
Web-based volunteer project to digitize and catalog museum and university herbarium collections held in the UK. |
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Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera - http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/ncu/genera/NCUGQuery.htm
International Association for Plant Taxonomy searchable database. |
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Atlas of the Flora of New England - http://neatlas.huh.harvard.edu/
Continuing project with annotated checklists of pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and most monocots, with links to dot maps for each taxon. |
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Flora brasiliensis - http://florabrasiliensis.cria.org.br/
Online version of the series of books produced between 1840 and 1906 by editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler and Ignatz Urban with the participation of 65 specialists. [English and Portuguese versions]. |
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Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas - http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/EastTX/ETinfo.htm
Information including keys, descriptions and illustrations of species available in Adobe pdf format by Shinners and Mahler. |
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E-Flora BC - http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~brian/florae/
Electronic atlas project for the plants of British Columbia, covering life forms from vascular plants to algae, and topics from identification to scientific collections. |
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PlantWorld - http://www.plantworld.org
Photographic directory of plants from around the world arranged by family and genus. |
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Photo Herbarium - http://www.vaernes.net/einar/fotoherbarium/main_e.htm
Einar Vaernes has produced a photograph gallery of Norwegian plants that he has photographed near Trondheim. |
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Flora of Hokkaido - http://www.hinoma.com/maps/index.shtml
Distribution maps of vascular plants of Hokkaido, Japan. |
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Flora of Europe - http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/aart/
Photographic herbarium organized by plant family and genus, with botanical descriptions and photos. Personal project, with about 60 families represented. |
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Caudiciforms - http://www.bihrmann.com/caudiciforms
Information and photos of many species of caudiciforms - plants with thickened bases. |
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Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States - http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/b98/check98.htm
Full text index of the 1998 version of the Biota of North America Program's checklist. |
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Index Nominum Genericorum - http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/ing/
A collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Smithsonian Institution, providing a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. |
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Pacific Northwest Plants - http://pnwplants.wsu.edu/
Provides a database for plant identification, culture and usage for the Northwest, including native and introduced species and their major varieties and cultivars. |
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FloraBase - The Flora of Western Australia - http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/
Authoritative scientific information on 12,000 taxa in Western Australia, including maps, images, descriptions, specimen, and nomenclatural information. Requires registration. |
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Land Plants Online - http://www.science.siu.edu/landplants/
Southern Illinois University's guide to the taxonomic and evolutionary relations among terrestrial plants, with extensive links to other resources. |
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PLANTS National Database - http://plants.usda.gov/
Online USDA database of information, images, and links on plants in the USA, including crops and invasives. Search by name, geographic distribution, or other characteristics. |
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Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature - http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/bibliographies/KR/
Database of references to publications on the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns. |
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University of Manchester: British Flowering Plants - http://emu.man.ac.uk/mmcustom/BotQuery.php
Searchable, illustrated collection. |