Flora of North America <JavaScript: openWin(
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Flora of North America Association Plants of North America
Photos, Plant Descriptions, Habitats, Taxonomy The ultimate source for
North American plants, but so far including only the ferns, conifers, a
few monocots, and the dicot orders Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. These
latter are heavily populated with trees and shrubs, but rock gardeners
will find the Ranunulaceae and Papaveraceae of interest. More about
this <JavaScript: openWin( 'http://www.fna.org/FNA/' ); void(0)>.
National PLANTS Database <JavaScript: openWin( 'http://plants.usda.gov/'
); void(0)>
United States Department of Agriculture Plants of the USA
Photos, Culture, Plant Descriptions, Habitats, Taxonomy The PLANTS
Database is 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. Slow site. Typical
results: Mimulus primuloides <JavaScript: openWin(
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Plants for a Future <JavaScript: openWin(
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Plants for a Future Herbals and Others
Culture, Plant Descriptions, Habitats, Taxonomy "Plants For A Future is
a resource center for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which
have edible, medicinal or other uses." Not all or even most are rare and
unusual but there are 7000 entries with extensive data, notably
propagation, on each. More about this <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/D_intro.html' ); void(0)>. Typical
results: Anemone <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://www.metalab.unc.edu/pfaf/cgi-bin/find_lat?LAT=Anemone&COM=&FAM='
); void(0)>
Rock Garden Plants Database <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://web.kadel.cz/flora/' ); void(0)>
Dr. Pavel SlabĂ˝ Rock Plants, Alpines
Photos, Culture, Plant Descriptions, Taxonomy Splendid list of rock
garden plants with description, cultivation, propagation, and often
photos too. Omits all monocots, ferns. Typical results: Saxifraga
marginata <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://web.kadel.cz/flora/c/kvCard.asp?Id=2433' ); void(0)>
Mainly about Culture
Plant Facts <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://plantfacts.ohio-state.edu/text.html' ); void(0)>
Ohio State University Cooperative Extension Ornamental Plants
Photos, Culture Photos and cultural info from many Cooperative Extension
databases. Typical results:
Flora of China Checklist <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/foc.html' ); void(0)>
Missouri Botanical Garden Plants of China
Taxonomy The checklist has 30,000 entries, i.e., a complete list,
whereas the Flora itself is considerably smaller in scope but provides
more descriptive material. Typical results:
Global Plant Checklist <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IOPI/GPC/query.htm' ); void(0)>
International Organization for Plant Information Valid Names
Taxonomy A source for verification of plant names, as of January 2000
including 200,000 vascular plants with extensions planned. More about
this <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IOPI/GPC/about.htm' ); void(0)>. Typical
results:
Intermountain Flora <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/intf/' ); void(0)>
New York Botanical Garden Plants of the Great Basin
Photos, Taxonomy Taxonomic info and images of the type specimens from
the NYBG Herbarium. As of January, 2000 the images of interest to rock
gardeners are in the Ericaceae. Shame it's not Intermountain Flora itself.
Plant Name Finder <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://www.nationalgardening.com/special/dictionary.taf' ); void(0)>
National Gardening Association, USA Common/Botanical Names
If you know the common name and want the scientific (or vice versa) this
is the place. Common names are English only.
w3Tropicos <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html' ); void(0)>
Missouri Botanical Garden Plants of the World
Taxonomy w3Tropicos provides access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's
nomenclatural database and associated authority files. Information is
available for over 750,000 scientific plant names. The records
frequently have links to other associated names, types, synonymy, and
bibliographic references. Typical results:
Directories
Database of Plant Databases <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://iopi.csu.edu.au/iopi/dpd/iopi-dpdsearch.html' ); void(0)>
International Organization for Plant Information Databases
Taxonomy A collection of taxonomic databases and herbarium collections,
some on the net and some not. If you are searching for a family or genus
or geographical area, this can be a good starting point. More about
this <JavaScript: openWin( 'http://iopi.csu.edu.au/iopi/iopidpd1.html'
); void(0)>. Typical results:
Horticultural Dictionary <JavaScript: openWin(
'http://www.nationalgardening.com/special/dictionary.taf' ); void(0)>
National Gardening Association, USA Gardening Terms
Has dibble and 15,000 other terms. Typical results:
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