Botany Links
Reference Sites
Botanical Gardens and Societies
Botany Courses at other institutions
Herbaria and Systematics Collections
Flora of North America
The Flora of North America Project will treat more than 20,000 species of plants native or naturalized in North America north of Mexico, about 7% of the world's total.
Silvics of North America, Agriculture Handbook 654
Descriptions of the silvical characteristics of about 200 forest tree species and varieties.
PLANTS Database
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
Tree of Life
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
Center for Plant Conservation
The Center for Plant Conservation is a network of more than 30 leading botanic institutions dedicated solely to preventing the extinction of U.S. native plants.
Texas A&M University Bioinformatics Working Group
The Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group includes campus faculty, staff, and students with research and educational interests in the expression of biodiversity data using new information technologies.
The Internet Directory of Botany
The Internet Directory of Botany is an index to botanical information available on the Internet.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The World's greatest botanic garden devoted to science, horticulture, the maintenance of plant collections, conservation, education, and data bases.
The New York Botanical Garden
The Garden is one of the world's great collections of plants, the region's leading educational center for gardening and horticulture, and an international center for plant research.
Connecticut Botanical Society
A group of amateur and professional botanists who share an interest in the plants and habitats of Connecticut and the surrounding region.
New England Wild Flower Society
Promoting conservation of North American native plants through education, research, horticulture, habitat preservation, and advocacy.
Botanical Society of America
The Botanical Society of America (BSA) is a "not-for-profit" membership society that exists to promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere.
Flowering Plants (Botany 3700) at California State University - Stanislaus
A botany course site maintained by Dr. Steven J. Wolf for his course on flowering plants at Cal State University - Stanislaus. All images are copyrighted but they may be used for non-commercial, educational purposes as long as he is given credit. If you use them you must not alter them in any way, that includes reducing the size. If you use them please sign the guest book.
Taxonomy of Flowering Plants (Botany 301) at Texas A&M
A website updated in 2006 by the Herbarium, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University. These pages and local linked content have been developed for the personal use of Texas A&M systematic botany students and all with an interest in the Texas flora. While they are not designed for commercial use or publication, they are designed to maximize free and open flow of information relating to systematic botany.
Harvard University Herbaria
One of the largest comprehensive collections of dried plant and fungal specimens in the world.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The World's greatest botanic garden devoted to science, horticulture, the maintenance of plant collections, conservation, education, and data bases.
L.H. Bailey Hortorium
The Bailey Hortorium is an academic unit within the Department of Plant Biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.The Hortorium's mission includes systematic studies of wild and cultivated plants, ethnobotany, plant molecular systematics, paleobotany of angiosperms, systematics theory, biodiversity studies, and pharmaceutical studies of tropical plants.
University of Wisconsin, Madison Plant Systematics Collection
This web site provides structured access to a teaching collection of plant images representing over 250 families and 1500 genera of vascular plants. This collection is now organized in recognition of recent molecular data using currently accepted families and orders.
The University of Connecticut Biological Collections Herbarium
The George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN) supports botanical research in all disciplines including systematics, taxonomy, biodiversity, ecology, ethnobotany, palaeobotany, evolution and education.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Botanical Databases
Our mission is to discover and describe plant life in marine and terrestrial environments, to interpret the evolutionary origin of this diversity, and to understand how humans are affected by and have altered plant diversity on the planet.