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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. |
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International Plant Names Index - http://www.ipni.org/
Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. |
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Flora of North America - http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/
A systematic accounts of the plant species of North America north of Mexico. Includes names, relationships, characteristics, and distribution. |
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Digital Flora of Texas - Vascular Plant Image Library - http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm
Large collection of photographs, arranged by family. |
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CalFlora Database - http://www.calflora.org/
Searchable database all 8375 currently recognized vascular plants in California, including 20000 photographs. |
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Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants - http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/
A searchable database compiled by the Institute of Systematic Botany at the University of South Florida with maps, citations, and images and species lists for each county. |
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Flora of China - http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/china/
An international collaborative effort to publish the first English language account of China's vascular plants. |
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Index Nominum Genericorum - http://botany.si.edu/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. |
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Tropicos - http://www.tropicos.org/
Publicly accessible botanical database organizing millions of plant specimens, images, and bibliographic references, from the Bioinformatics Department at the Missouri Botanical Garden. |
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Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium - http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/
Information about the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian plants, access to databases on living plants, herbarium specimens and photographs. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Flora Danica Online - http://www.kb.dk/en/tema/floradanica/
One of the world’s great botanical works, this was started in 1752 but not completed until 1883. The 3,240 engravings in folio of all the wild plants of Denmark are now available online. |
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http://www.efloras.org/ - http://www.efloras.org/
Collection of online floras, including the Flora of China, Flora of North America, Flora of Missouri, Flora of Pakistan, and Trees and Shrubs of the Andes of Ecuador. |
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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. |
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Introduction to the Green Kingdom - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/plantae.html
Brief introduction to the plant kingdom with links to further information. |
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Dictionary of Botanical Epithets - http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html
Glossary of Latin terms used in species names, from abbreviatulus to yunnanensis. |
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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]. |
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E-Flora BC - http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
Electronic atlas project for the plants of British Columbia, covering life forms from vascular plants to algae, and topics from identification to scientific collections. |
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Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature - http://kbd.kew.org/kbd/
Database of references to publications on the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns. |
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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. |
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World Checklist of Selected Plant Families - http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
Enter a family, genus, or genus and species to see accepted names and world distribution of plants in 150 families. Maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Surrey, UK. |
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Forestry Images - Plants - http://www.forestryimages.org/plants.cfm
Small collection of plant imagery, from University of Georgia. |
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Flora of Northern Ireland - http://www.habitas.org.uk/flora/
A plant database with photographs, information on rare plants and their habitats, searchable by habitat, species, plant family and common names. |
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Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery - http://www.noble.org/webapps/plantimagegallery/
A plant identification resource that covers more than 630 species of trees, grasses, and forbs native to the southern Great Plains. |
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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. |
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Northern Arizona Flora - http://www.nazflora.org
A photographic, annotated catalog of wild vascular plants in Northern Arizona, arranged by families and scientific name. Includes synonymy and distribution of each taxon. |
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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. |
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Hong Kong Flora and Vegetation - http://www.hkflora.com/
Discusses plant diversity and adaptations and how plants improve the air and water quality, prevent soil erosion and water runoff, and provide food and shelter for the local fauna. Includes information on plant study sites and trails chosen by the Quality Education Fund and a checlist of plant species. |
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Climbers of Guyana - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/lianas/
Vegetative key to the climbing plant species of the Mabura Hill region, Guyana, South America. |
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University of Manchester: British Flowering Plants - http://emu.man.ac.uk/mmcustom/BotQuery.php
Searchable, illustrated collection. |
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Pacific Northwest Plants - http://pnwplants.wsu.edu/
Provides a database for plant identification, culture and usage for the Northwest, including native and introduced species and their major varieties and cultivars. |
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Botany.cz - http://botany.cz/en
Provides a virtual herbarium with photographs and descriptions of a range of species, a catalogue of localities and information on endangered and protected plants in the Czech Republic. |
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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. |
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Albion College Vascular Plant Image Gallery - http://www.albion.edu/plants/
Taxonomically arranged images and summaries of family characteristics. |
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Canary Islands Flora - http://www.canaryislandflora.com/
Detailed information and photos of the habitats and plants of these volcanic islands off the coast of Africa. |
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Tree List - http://www.treelist.org
Offers users the facility to upload tree photographs with details of species, height and location so that they can appear on Google Maps. |
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Encyclopedia of Plants - http://plantspedia.org
Browsable encylcopedia of plants providing botanical names, symbols and details for over 90,000 species. |
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Flora Cretica - http://in-crete.110mb.com/floracretica/
The Flora of the Mediterranean Island of Crete covering all the wild and natural plants found there. Includes flowering calendar, identification of species and suggestions for finding plants but the images are only available to members. Multilingual. |
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Inventory of the Plants of Pakistan - http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/pakistan/
Information about the project to publish a complete Flora of Pakistan. |