Botany

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Angiosperm Phylogeny Group: An Ordinal Classification of Flowering Plants
"Here we present a classification of 462 flowering plant families in 40 putatively monophyletic orders and a small number of monophyletic, informal higher groups."

Atlas of Medicinal Plants by Daniel Haake
Each entry in the atlas supplies a picture of the plant, as well as it links to other sources that discuss the health benefits of the plant, such as PubMed and others. Browse in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Biodiversity Information Standards
A not-for-profit association whose stated mission is "to provide an international forum for biological data projects; to develop and promote the use of standards; and to facilitate data exchange."

Botanical Explorations in the United States and Canada [Bibliography]
A professor emeritus whose research specialty is botany in North America recommends a series of technical sources relating to North American sites.

Botany Internet Directory
From the Finnish Museum of Natural History, some 4000 botany related links will be especially useful for finding taxonomic lists, international plant organizations, and specialized botanical resources.

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps
Sponsored by the Branner Earth Sciences Library, this site organizes links to maps by continent, and then by country or region.

Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species
The species database allows you to gather information about species CITES qualifies as endangered. You can combine country of origin with phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, or common name. Choose a listed plant for detailed information, such as its habitat distribution and legal status, to name a few.

Dictionary of Common Names
Translates between botanical and common names.

Distribution of Vascular Plants in Europe (Atlas Flora Europea)
"The principal aim of the AFE is to offer complementary maps with taxonomic notes of species and subspecies for the Flora Europaea." The data are chorological.

Flora Online from Harvard
Access to a series of flora, tree and moss databases, housed at Harvard University, for China, North America, Pakistan, and the Andes of Ecuador.

Flowering Plant Gateway

Gesneriaceae Research and World Checklist
Developed by researchers at the Botany Department of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institute, this web site includes two databases relating to bibliographic references and taxonomic citations of the Gesneriad family.

Grass Manual on the Web
Compiled and hosted by the Utah State University, this online manual includes illustrations, North American distribution maps, images and botanical descriptions for many hundred species of grasses.

GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
"In GRIN Taxonomy all families and genera of vascular plants and over 40,000 species from throughout the world are represented, especially economic plants and their relatives. Information on scientific and common names, classification, distribution, references, and economic impacts are provided."

The Gymnosperm Database
"The Database provides basic information (sometimes only a name) for all species and higher-ranked taxa of the gymnosperms, i.e., conifers, cycads, and their allies. You enter the taxonomic tree at the Family level and then navigate to the Genus, Species or sometimes Variety levels. At each level, information on the taxon at hand is provided, along with bibliographic citations that will take you to more detailed information about the taxon."

Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
"A joint effort between the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, the University of Maryland and Cornell University. The purpose of the project is to capture all valid and legitimate extant vascular plants names, as defined by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, proposed above the rank of genus. These data are dynamic and constantly being updated. At any one time, the listing of a name means only that it is the earliest, valid place of publication found."

International Association of Plant Taxonomy: Generic Names in Current Use
A simple interface. A query allows you to search only a name but not authorship or year of publication.

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code) Electronic Version


International Organization for Plant Information Global Plant Checklist

The International Plant Names Index
"The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked."

Integrated Taxonomic Information System
An easy to use database for discovering and viewing the complete taxonomy of any given plant or animal in a hierarchical format.

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List of Threatened Species
"The 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been evaluated using the 1994 IUCN Red List Categories. This system is designed to determine the relative risk of extinction, and the main purpose of the IUCN Red List is to catalogue and highlight those taxa that are facing a higher risk of global extinction (i.e. those listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable)." Records include classification, assessment information, geographic distribution, summary documentation, detailed documentation and data sources. Advanced searching allows for limiting by region, country, marine region, or biome. Records do not contain images, but the site does refer visitors to a list of links organized by organism (i.e. mammals, fish, birds, plants)

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
An international non-profit group that develops standards and protocols for sharing biodiversity data, the site includes standards documentation, databases of biodivirsity projects and networks, plus a wiki for collaborating on information sharing.

James Reveal's Concordance of Angiosperm Family Names
An index of plant family names and their alternative names as suggested by leading taxonomists.

The Kew Bibliographic Databases (Free registration is required to search)
Aa combined searching tool giving you access to three bibliographic databases: KR - The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature, PMBD - the Plant Micromorphological Bibliographic Database and EBBD - the Economic Botany Bibliographic Database

ISHS Commission Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration International Cultivar Registration Authorities (ICRAs)
Information on how to name a new plant cultivar and a directory of organizations holding the authority to register new cultivars.

Missouri Botanic Garden's TROPICOS Nomenclatural Database and Authority Files
"Enter a scientific name in the box below to obtain current information on the name, its place of publication, type, and other information about the plant."

New World Fruits Database
"Key information provided includes data on nomenclature, taxonomic and vernacular, on fruit and plant uses and on distribution and origin. Links are provided to additional information, such as experts working on the different species, references and URLs, making the database a useful starting point in a search for more information on the selected species."

New Ornamentals Database
Reference source for the newest ornamental plants not typically referenced elsewhere. Basic subscription cost starts at $39.00 per year.

PhyloCode: A Phylogenetic Code of Biological Nomenclature

Plant Biology "chapter" of Dr. Kimball's Biology Pages
The continually updated, fully cross-referenced online version of a biology textbook authored by a retired professor from Harvard.

PlantExplorers.com
A site with the ambitious goal of supporting and documenting plant exploration through history and modern times. The bulk of the pages are biographies of the more famous plant hunters of the last few centuries.

Plant Physiology Online Textbook
The companion to Plant Physiology, Fourth Edition by Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger

Oregon Plant Atlas
The Oregon Flora Project and the Native Plant Society of Oregon have teamed up to create this plant altas. The interactive mapping program allows the user to create customized plant distribution maps of species and sub-species native to Oregon; the atlas shows the location where they have been observed or collected, as well as detailed information about the specimen.

PLANTS Database
This USDA sponsored site is maintained by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Their mission is to provide: "a single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data,crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links,references, and other plant information."

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Multisite Search
The data available from this page are extracted from the on-line "Living Collections" and conservation databases of multiple arboreta and botanic gardens. You can simultaneously search as many of these databases as you wish, or select only the North American sites.

Species 2000
"Species 2000 has the objective of enumerating all known species of organisms on Earth (animals, plants, fungi and microbes) as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity."

Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition (TL-2)
The online, fully searchable version of this important and historic work documenting plant taxonomy.

Tree Species Distribution Maps for North America
Produced by the United States Geological Survey, maps of the geographic ranges of North American trees are available for download, or viewing as a PDF. The trees are arranged alphabetically by genus.

University of Washington Herbarium Database
The database system provides access to label information from specimens housed in the WTU herbarium. As one of the largest herbaria in the Pacific Northwest, WTU's total holdings number around 564,000 specimens. These are divided between collections of vascular plants, mosses, hepatics, fungi, lichens, and algae, with a focus on the Pacific Northwest region.

Why Leaves Change Color
This frequently asked question is answered in depth by the US Forest Service.

Yahoo Botany Directory
The site acts as a portal to sites related to botany and horticulture.

More web site lists:

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