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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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Welcome to the PLANTS National Database Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames. PLANTS National Database Home Page without frame-navigation. NOTE: You will not be able to navigate or do name searches from this page....Information and photos of many species of caudiciforms - plants with thickened bases.
http://www.bihrmann.com/caudiciforms
Brief introduction to the plant kingdom with links to further information.
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Introduction to the Plantae Plantae includes all land plants: mosses, ferns, conifers, flowering plants, and so on—an amazing range of diverse forms. With more than 250,000 species, they are second in size only to the arthropoda. Plants have been around for a very long...International Association for Plant Taxonomy searchable database.
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Names in Current Use Genera> Names in current use for extant plant genera Electronic version 1.0 Query the NCU database Fill in the empty field in order to query the database for a specific genus name. Use the asterisk in the beginning, middle, and/or at...Introduction to the Plant Kingdom with information on some of the divisions which make up this group.
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Natural Perspective: Plant Kingdom Plants provide nourishment for our bodies and souls. With the help of protists and fungi, plants provide the oxygen we breathe and the food that sustains us either directly or indirectly, by feeding other animals. Plants provide shade over our...Introduction to the first land plants, known from fossils.
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The oldest land plants (1) How plants conquered the land Fossils tell the story About fourhundred and fifty million years ago, at the end of the Ordovician and in the beginning of the Silurian, the land was desolate and empty. Barren, hardly wethered rockgrounds, empty...Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.
http://www.ipni.org/
References on California plant names, meanings and derivations from Latin and Greek roots, with biographical information on western botanists and collectors.
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Michael Charters Home Page Please do not confuse this site with Calflora, the superb database of botanical photos and information that is maintained by The Calflora Database in Albany, California. My site is not affiliated with that organization, and anyone looking for that site...Southern Illinois University's guide to the taxonomic and evolutionary relations among terrestrial plants, with extensive links to other resources.
http://www.science.siu.edu/landplants/
Small collection of plant imagery, from University of Georgia.
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Forest Understory Rangeland Plants Forestry Images Please sign up for free membership! Forest Pests Trees Plants Silviculture Invasive Species Wildlife More Images Contribute Understory Rangeland Plants Forbs and Herbs Grasses, Sedges and other Grass-like Plants Shrubs and Subshrubs Vines Palms Ferns Cactus Aquatic Plants Parasitic and...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.
http://rathbun.si.edu/botany/ing/
Glossary of Latin terms used in species names, from abbreviatulus to yunnanensis.
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Dictionary of Botanical Epithets The epithets are largely taken from alpine plants and found in the seed lists of the North American Rock Garden Society's seed list, alpine plant nursery catalogs and alpine references. Send comments to chuckg at winternet.com Search for epithets starting...Full text index of the 1998 version of the Biota of North America Program's checklist.
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BONAP U.S. Checklist 1998 SORRY, YOU ARE USING A BROWSER THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT FRAMES. NETSCAPE 2.0 AND ABOVE SUPPORTS THIS FEATURE...A growing directory of the hierarchy, from Kingdom down to species, with common names included, and descriptive pages on selected species.
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Kingdom: Plantae Contains all of this site and more) This month's feature: Common Plantain Kingdom: Plantae A plant is a multi-cellular organism that produces food through photosynthesis. Mosses Allies Ferns Allies Conifers Allies Flowering Plants Previous Features: Lamb's-quarters, Mullein, Yarrow, Chickweed, Yellow...Continuing project with annotated checklists of pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and most monocots, with links to dot maps for each taxon.
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Atlas of the Flora of New England Introduction to the Web Version England will be an ongoing updated document. Use the links at the bottom of this page to access the available sections of the atlas. Links to the body of the atlas appear at the beginning of the introduction page for...Information including keys, descriptions and illustrations of species available in Adobe pdf format by Shinners and Mahler.
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ET information These volumes will comprise a completely illustrated taxonomic treatment of the nearly 3,402 species of vascular plants occuring in the East Texas region. The same team that produced the Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas will be involved, with the...Images of hundreds of species of ferns, fern allies, and flowering plants, arranged by genus.
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Hawaiian Native Plants, UH Botany The search or find option of your web viewer will take you instantly to any scientific or common name in this index. You can then follow the link to the appropriate web page for more information and illustrations pertaining to...Taxonomically arranged images and summaries of family characteristics.
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Albion College Your browser does not support script Image Database Welcome to our online collection of vascular plant images! This database was developed to support organismal botany courses. It is composed primarily of photographs from eastern North America and the Caribbean basin....Searchable, illustrated collection.
http://emu.man.ac.uk/mmcustom/BotQuery.php
Meanings of over 1000 root words used in scientific names of plants.
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Garden Gate: Roots of Botanical Names Internet resources catalogs, information catalogs, online clipart Cooperative Extensions databases e-mail discussion groups FAQs gardening software garden tours glossaries indoor gardening listservs magazines, online magazines, information mailing lists newsgroups plant databases plant lists software Did you know that Lavender Lavandula)...Database of references to publications on the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns.
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/bibliographies/KR/
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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NRCS National Plant Data Center S and other efforts to improve the ecological health of the land. What's New Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Technical Note Released January 2005 This technical note, produced by the NPDC ethnobotany office, is the first in a series providing step-by-step...Information about a wide range of edible or otherwise useful plants, sorted by names and potential uses.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/
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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E-Flora BC: An Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia A partnership project of the Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, UBC, and the UBC Herbarium, Department of Botany, UBC. Cover photo and graphics by David Blevins. This page has had 33198 hits since November 10, 2003...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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Plant Resources Center The University Biological Sciences Spotlight Email Us...Photographic herbarium organized by plant family and genus, with botanical descriptions and photos. Personal project, with about 60 families represented.
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Flora of Europe Here are all the families and their genera in this Flora: Acanthaceae Acanthus Adiantaceae Adiantum Aizoaceae Mesembryanthemum Alismataceae Alisma Amaryllidaceae Narcissus Anacardiaceae Cotinus Apocynaceae Nerium Vinca Araceae Arum Aristolochiaceae Aristolochia Asteraceae Achillea Artemisia Astericus Carthamus Centaurae Cichorium Cirsium Cynara Echinops...