- Natural Perspective: Plant Kingdom - http://www.perspective.com/nature/plantae/
Introduction to the Plant Kingdom with information on some of the divisions which make up this group.
- CalFlora Database - http://www.calflora.org/
Searchable database all 8375 currently recognized vascular plants in California, including 20000 photographs.
- The Oldest Land Plants - http://www.xs4all.nl/~steurh/eng/old1.html
Introduction to the first land plants, known from fossils.
- 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.
- 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.
- Land Plants Online - http://www.science.siu.edu/landplants/
Southern Illinois University's guide to the taxonomic and evolutionary relations among terrestrial plants, with extensive links to other resources.
- Forestry Images - Plants - http://www.forestryimages.org/plants.cfm
Small collection of plant imagery, from University of Georgia.
- 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.
- Index Nominum Genericorum - http://rathbun.si.edu/botany/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.
- Dictionary of Botanical Epithets - http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html
Glossary of Latin terms used in species names, from abbreviatulus to yunnanensis.
- Kingdom: Plantae - http://www.cloudnet.com/~djeans/index.htm
A growing directory of the hierarchy, from Kingdom down to species, with common names included, and descriptive pages on selected species.
- Atlas of the Flora of New England - http://neatlas.huh.harvard.edu/
Continuing project with annotated checklists of pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and most monocots, with links to dot maps for each taxon.
- Flora of Hokkaido - http://www.hinoma.com/maps/index.shtml
Distribution maps of vascular plants of Hokkaido, Japan.
- 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.
- Hawaiian Native Plant Genera - http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/natives.htm
Images of hundreds of species of ferns, fern allies, and flowering plants, arranged by genus.
- National Herbarium Nederland - http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/
Information about the research themes and training undertaken at the national herbarium of the Netherlands, with links to the three contributary universities.
- University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) - http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herbarium/
The herbarium and the associated paleobotanical collection have combined holdings of approximately 1/2 million specimens. Includes library search, catalog, and project information.
- Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature - http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/bibliographies/KR/
Database of references to publications on the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns.
- 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.
- Plants For A Future - http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/
Information about a wide range of edible or otherwise useful plants, sorted by names and potential uses.
- E-Flora BC - http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~brian/florae/
Electronic atlas project for the plants of British Columbia, covering life forms from vascular plants to algae, and topics from identification to scientific collections.
- Caudiciforms - http://www.bihrmann.com/caudiciforms
Information and photos of many species of caudiciforms - plants with thickened bases.
- Flora of Europe - http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/aart/
Photographic herbarium organized by plant family and genus, with botanical descriptions and photos. Personal project, with about 60 families represented.
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