Knowledge: plantae
See Also:
- home → gardening → plants
- recreation → outdoors → wildlife → plants
- recreation → pets → fish and aquaria → plants
- science → biology → botany
- science → biology → genetics → eukaryotic → plant
Links
- Introduction to the Green Kingdom
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/plantae.html - Brief introduction to the plant kingdom with links to further information.
- 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.
- Natural Perspective: Plant Kingdom
http://www.perspective.com/nature/plantae/ - Introduction to the Plant Kingdom with information on some of the divisions which make up this group.
- CalFlora Database
http://www.calflora.org/ - Searchable database all 8375 currently recognized vascular plants in California, including 20000 photographs.
- The Oldest Land Plants
http://www.xs4all.nl/~steurh/eng/old1.html - Introduction to the first land plants, known from fossils.
- 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.
- International Plant Names Index
http://www.ipni.org/ - Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.
- Botanical Word Meanings and Name Derivations
http://www.calflora.net/ - References on California plant names, meanings and derivations from Latin and Greek roots, with biographical information on western botanists and collectors.
- 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.
- Forestry Images - Plants
http://www.forestryimages.org/plants.cfm - Small collection of plant imagery, from University of Georgia.
- 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.
- Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html - Glossary of Latin terms used in species names, from abbreviatulus to yunnanensis.
- 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.
- 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.
- Flora of Hokkaido
http://www.hinoma.com/maps/index.shtml - Distribution maps of vascular plants of Hokkaido, Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- Digital Flora of Texas - Vascular Plant Image Library
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm - Large collection of photographs, arranged by family.
- Albion College Vascular Plant Image Gallery
http://www.albion.edu/plants/ - Taxonomically arranged images and summaries of family characteristics.
- University of Manchester: British Flowering Plants
http://emu.man.ac.uk/mmcustom/BotQuery.php - Searchable, illustrated collection.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Caudiciforms
http://www.bihrmann.com/caudiciforms - Information and photos of many species of caudiciforms - plants with thickened bases.
- 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.
- 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.
- Discover Life - Plantae
http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Plantae/ - Checklists, images, maps, and identification guides.
- Kingdom: Plantae
http://www.kingdomplantae.net/ - A growing directory of the hierarchy from Kingdom down to species. Includes descriptive pages on selected species.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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].
- 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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