Resources for identifying plants, angiosperms, gymnosperms, flowers, fruits, seeds and leaves.
Keyword: Database
Natural History Museum Botany Collections
The Museum’s Botany collection holds an estimated six million specimens of mosses, ferns, seed plants and slime molds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a period from the 17th century to the present and includes a number of historically important collections.
UConn Plant Database
This site includes information about trees, shrubs and vines that do particularly well in the Northeastern United States. You may search for plants by attribute or characteristic, or you may browse by Latin name. Each entry has a fact sheet, photos and a list of cultivars, if available.
Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheetss
Search or browse the tree fact sheets, created by Virginia Tech Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation.
Royal Botanic Gardens/Kew Databases
Databases, publications, bibliographies, catalogues and interactive keys from the leading international center of botanical research.
Plants for a Future Species Database
The Plants for a Future Species Database contains details of over 7000 plants, all of which are either edible, have medicinal properties or have some other use such as fibers, oils or soaps. For each plant the database contains details of the uses of the plants, as well as information of the environment it will grow in and cultivation details.
FindNurseries.com
FindNurseries.com offers a National Directory of Nurseries and related businesses organized by state. The individual listing are very basic, consisting of only the nursery name, address and phone number. Although the search options claim a search can be made of general plant types, in fact this kind of searching doesn’t work well. However, searching for a city or zip code does work.
Trees are Good
Sponsored by the International Society of Arboriculture, this site offers factsheets on tree care and selection as well as a database for finding professional arborists anywhere in the world.
E-Flora BC
An “electronic atlas of the plants of British Columbia” that provides detailed biogeographical, ecological and taxonomic information on vascular and non-vascular plants of the province. Includes a photo gallery and distribution maps.
Invasive and Exotic Species of North America – Images
A photo database of invasive plants, plant diseases and harmful insects, plus biological control agents providing “an accessible and easily used archive of high quality images…with an emphasis on educational applications.” Images are available to download for non-profit and educational purposes.