Plants

For more Plant links see the Earth Caretaker website - Plant Links

• Trees of the Pacific Northwest - tree identification key

• Washington State University Native Plants - Northwestern U.S. plant identification database, and gardening tips re native plants

• Brousseau California Flora pictures - 11,000 images of California wildflowers and other plants

• The Ancient Bristlecone Pine - interesting site devoted to these very ancient trees.

• Wildflowers of Western Kentucky - 115 downloadable images of wildflowers, and links to other wildflower resources

• Missouri Botanical Garden's Database

• Flora of North America - scientific site about plants of North America

• Plants for a Future - searchable database (U.K.)

• Internet Directory for Botany in Canada

• Celebrating Wildflowers - The "Celebrating Wildflowers" web site now features more than 90 wildflower illustrations from national parks. Botanical illustrator Donald Davidson created over 200 individual watercolors of wildflowers while serving as a VIP traveling artist over the last three years. His works also include trees, shrubs, and grasses.

• Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre
• Wildflowers of Ontario - John Wright
• Wildflower Links - Grand Valley Trail Association
• Northern Ontario Wildflowers
• Sweet Grass Gardens
• Missouri Flora Website with many U.S. Botany Links
• Natural History at Sweet Briar College - Virginia
• Missouri Botanical Garden - Botany links
• Moscow State University Botanical Server 
• Botanical Specialists and Literature - Environment Canada (Govt website)
• University of Regina Biology Department and Herbarium
• Mycological Society of Toronto (mushrooms)
• Dean Gugler's Wildflower Watch page - for the Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) area.
• Herb Society of America
• PLANTS national database (United States Dept of Agriculture) - Includes searchable database of plant images, distribution information and plant classification information including hierarchical listing. Plant checklists are searchable by state. Plant characteristics section includes information on physiology, growth requirements, reproduction and suitability/use.
• Ohio State University PlantFacts - Searchable database of over 20,000 pages of extension service factsheets from forty-six universities and government agencies. Search can be limited by region.
• Native American Ethnobotany Database (University of Michigan) - Coverage includes foods, drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses of 4,029 species of plants by 291 Native American groups. Each entry includes Latin and common name, Native American group, uses and source of information. Searchable by keyword. Boolean search available.
• Hortiplex - Brings together data from a variety of good plant databases on over 50,000 taxa and 48,000 cultivars. Searchable by common or botanical name. Includes images.
• Herbmed - Database from the Alternative Medicine Foundation with information on over 100 medicinal plants. Coverage includes evidence of activity (from case studies/clinical trials), warnings, preparations, mixtures, mechanisms for action and related links (including images).
• Calflora - Includes occurrence data for over 8000 vascular plants of California. Indexed by common and scientific name. Search can be limited by county, lifeform, elevation, community and rare/native status. Image database includes over 20,000 images and is searchable by a variety of fields including name, photographer, location and plant color.
• Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - Includes five separate databases: Ecosys--plant ecological ranges, EthnobotDB--worldwide plant uses, FoodplantDB--Native American food plants, MPNADB--medicinal plants of Native America, and PhytochemDB--plant chemicals. 
• Guide to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - A collection of several databases from Purdue University Center for New Crops and Plant Products. Plant/Crop Descriptors includes monographs covering a variety of plant information including description, uses, and research. Type of information varies by plant. Indexed by Latin and common name. Other databases include Botanical Companies Database and Flavor, Fragrance and Essential Oils Companies Database. Also includes a Guide to Herb Varieties and a directory of sources for herb seeds and plants.
• Plants for a Future Database - Includes entries for over 7000 useful plants. Coverage includes physical characteristics, habitats, edible, medicinal and other uses, cultivation and propagation information, scent, select cultivars, print references and web reference links. Searchable by Latin and common name, use, area or habitat.
• Vascular Plant Image Gallery - Texas A&M University, Bioinformatics Working Group. - A HUGE database of plant photos.
  Flowering Plant Gateway 
  Cronquist System - Flowering Plant Family Finder
• On-Line Botanical Data - Herbarium of Texas A&M University - Dept. of Biology
  Prairie Nursery - although this is a business website, it has a large photo gallery of plants, along with info about each one. Photo Gallery. Select Plants by habitat - more info about each plant.
• Easy Living Wildflowers - another business website that has good info - go to the "Seed List" for info on plants.
• Athenic Systems Tree Guide - a commercial website, but has descriptions and range maps
• Gymnosperm Database 
• Wildflowers of Twin Swamps Nature Preserve (Posey County, Indiana USA) - pictures and lots of info
• Selected Vascular Plant Families of Ontario (University of Toronto)
• Virginia Tech Dendrology 
• Henriette's Plant Pictures 

• Native Flora - Mount Allison University - New Brunswick (Canada)

• Wisconsin Vascular Plants and Lichens - Wisconsin State Herbarium - University of Wisconsin-Madison -- search the herbarium, photos, etc.

• Wisconsin State Herbarium (home page)

• Flora Online - Harvard University

• Center for Wood Anatomy Research - U.S. Forestry Service - technical properties of various woods

• Botanical Dermatology database 

• Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System - (Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility - Government of Canada)

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) - search for any plant (Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility - Government of Canada)

• USDA Poisonous Plants Research Labratory 

• Cornell University Poisonous Plants Informational Database 

• University of Maryland Botanical Links - poisonous plants 

• Poisonous Plants of Nova Scotia - Museum of Nova Scotia

• The Natural History of the North Woods - Ferns, lichens/mosses, trees & shrubs, herbaceous plants, aquatic plants, etc

• The Virtual Library of Mycology (mushrooms) - by Kathie Hodge

• Richter's Herbs - an excellent source for purchasing live herbs