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Last Updated: 01-09-05


Organizations Species Directories
Databases Forestry & Trees General Botany
Gardens Plants Taxonomy
Biodiversity  Flowers Catalogs
Dictionaries Plus Paleovegetation Commercial

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ORGANIZATIONS

The American Fern Society, http://amerfernsoc.org/  Contact: lellinger.db(at)nmnh.si.edu (06-05-00)
American Society for Horticultural Science, http://www.ashs.org/ Contact: webmaster(at)ashs.org   (10-17-00)
American Society of Plant Taxonomists, http://www.sysbot.org/  Contact: ljdavenp(at)samford.edu (06-05-00)
Canola Council of Canada, http://www.canola-council.org/portal.html  
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, http://www.caes.state.ct.us/

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DATABASES
American Indian Ethnobotany Database, http://herb.umd.umich.edu/     Contact: dmoerman(at)umich.edu
Base de Dados Tropical Web, http://www.bdt.org.br/
Carnivorous Plant Database, http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi     Contact: rick_walker(at)agilent.com (06-05-00)
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases, http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/  Contact: webmaster(at)ars-grin.gov (06-05-00)
PLANTS Database,  http://plants.usda.gov/
USDI, FWS, National Wetland Inventory, http://www.nwi.fws.gov/

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GARDEN
Dirt Gardener's Gardening Journal, http://www.dirtgardener.com/index.htm
The Gardenbuilding Directory,  http://www.gardenbuildings.com/directory/ Contact:
directory(at)gardenbuildings.com
Garden California, http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1079 Contact: jimc(at)pronet.net
Garden Gate, http://garden-gate.prairienet.org Contact: garden-gate(at)prairienet.org
The Garden Helper, http://thegardenhelper.com Contact: beaurain(at)i-sphere.com
Garden Links & Gardening Links, http://www.gardenweb.com/vl/ Contact: editor(at)gardenweb.com
Garden Web, http://www.gardenweb.com/
Gardens and Gardening Programs, http://www.si.edu/tsa/rap/idx-gard.htm Contact: rap(at)tsa.si.edu
Greener Gardens, http://www/gardening.org   
Home & Garden Television, http://www.hgtv.com
Kids Gardening, http://nationalgardening.com/kidsgardening   
Missouri Botanical Gardens, http://www.mobot.org/ Contact: webmaster(at)mobot.mobot.org
Michigan State University Extension's Home Horticulture, http://web1.msue.msu.edu/msue/discontinued.html   Contact: heatley(at)msue.msu.edu   (Page not maintained)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/
Scott's Botanical Links, http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/
Southern Gardening, http://www.southerngardening.com  Contact: info(at)southerngardening.com
U.S. National Arboretum, http://www.ars-grin.gov/ars/Beltsville/na/
WWW Virtual Gardening Links, http://www.gardenweb.com/vl Contact: editor(at)gardenweb.com

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BIODIVERSITY
Land Institute, http://www.LandInstitute.org   Contact: glover(at)landinstitute.org
Major Biomes of the World,  http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/main.html  Contact: swoodwar(at)runet.edu  (06-23-00)

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DICTIONARIES PLUS
Botanical Glossaries, http://www.anbg.gov.au/glossary/glossary.html   Contact: al(at)anbg.gov.au  (06-05-00)
A Short Botanical Glossary, http://www.anbg.gov.au/glossary/croft.html  Contact: jrc(at)anbg.gov.au  (06-05-00)
Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botart/ 

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SPECIES
Guide to Collecting and Germinating Seeds,  http://web.grinnell.edu/individuals/mottll/resources.htm      
The World's Biomes, http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/  Contact:  ucmpwebmaster(at)uclink.berkeley.edu

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FORESTRY & TREES
Canadian Forest Service, http://nrcan.gc.ca/cfs/ Contact: cfs-scf(at)nrcan.gc.ca
Canadian Forests, http://www.canadian-forests.com/   Contact:  roper(at)canadian-forests.com   (07-10-00)
Finnish Forest Research Institute, http://www.metla.fi/   Contact:  info(at)metla.fi  (11-20-00)
Forest Conservation Archives and Portal, http://www.forests.org/ Contact: grbarry(at)students.wisc.edu (06-05-00)
Forest Practices Code: Seed and Vegetative Material Guidebook, http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/tasb/legsregs/fpc/fpcguide/veg/seedtoc.htm
The Forest Programme, http://www.wcmc.org.uk/forest/  Contact: info(at)wcmc.org.uk (06-05-00)
Forest Resources of Europe, CIS, North America, Australia, Japan and New Zealand, http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/fra/pdf/contents.htm
Forestry Agnic, http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/agnic  Contact:  j-albr(at)tc.umn.edu (01-09-06)
Forestry Links, http://www.forestry.ubc.ca/  Contact: sibley(at)interchg.ubc.ca
Forests For Life Campaign, http://www.panda.org/forests4life/
International Center for Research in Agroforestry, http://www.cgiar.org/icraf/  Contact:  webmaster-ICRAF(at)cgiar.org  (06-05-00)
National Agroforestry Center, http://www.unl.edu/nac/  Contact: wwisell(at)fs.fed.us  (06-05-00)
Rainforest Action Network, http://www.igc.apc.org/ran/  Contact: rainforest(at)ran.org  (06-06-00)
Rainforest Alliance, http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/  Contact:  canopy(at)ra.org  (06-06-00)
Tree Fruits: apples, pears, sweet cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/AGNIC/index.html Contact: jcummings(at)wsu.edu  (09-24-01)
World Rainforest Center, http://forests.org/    Contact:   RRosenhek(at)aol.com  (08-26-00)
WWW Virtual Library: Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/forestgen/

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PLANTS
American Beech, http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/american_beech.htm  
ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network , http://www.ars-grin.gov
ARS, GRIN: NRCS/PEAS Revision In-Progress http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxpeas.pl  
Barry Meyers-Rice's Page on Carnivorous Plants, http://www.sarracenia.com/cp.html
Botany.com, The Encyclopedia of Plants,
http://www.botany.com/
Botany, Plant Life, http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/start.htm#Botany Contact: info(at)info.si.edu
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, http://www.bbg.org
Brousseau Collection of California Wildflowers, http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/flora/ Contact: www(at)elib.cs.berkeley.edu
Cacti & Succulents Forum, http://www.gardenweb.com/forums/cacti/
Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/welcome.html
Cornell University Plant Pathology, http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/Title_Pages/RelatedCornell.html  Contact: kps2(at)cornell.edu (06-05-00)
Cyanosite, http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/ Purdue University's online resource on blue-green algae which contains a bibliography, image gallery, and taxonomy.  (09-11-00)  Contact: maschnee(at)twsu.edu
Fern List, http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/fern/  Contact: dsimmerman/rmrs_missoula(at)fs.fed.us (06-05-00)
Ferns of the Canberra Region, http://www.home.aone.net.au/byzantium/ferns/  Contact: chrisn(at)dynamite.com.au (06-05-00)
Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area, http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/dcflora/ Contact: stone.sylvia(at)nmnh.si.edu
Plant Fossil Record, http://www.biodiversity.org.uk/ibs/palaeo/pfr2/pfr.htm
Fun with Lichens, http://mgd.nacse.org/hyperSQL/lichenland/  Contact:  nacse-questions(at)nacse.org (06-05-00)
The Harmful Algea Page, http://www.redtide.whoi.edu/hab/default.html  (09-05-01)
Kohler's Medicinal Plants, http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/library/kohler/welcome.html 
Moonwort (Botrychium) Systemics, http://www.public.iastate.edu/~herbarium/botrychium.html      
Organism Menu, http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/organism_menu.htm  
The Parasitic Plant Connection, http://www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants/index.html
Plant Diseases, http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/PlantDisease/  Contact: pubs(at)unl.edu (06-05-00)
Plant Facts, http://plantfacts.ohio-state.edu/
Plant Link Library of the Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen UR, http://www.dpw.wageningen-ur.nl/links  There are over 1300 plant science resources.
Plant Pathology Online,  http://www.apsnet.org
The Plant Pathology Internet Guidebook, http://www.joeant.com/DIR/info/get/4900/35837
Plant Taxonomy, http://www.inform.umd.edu/pbio/pb250/  Contact: not available  (06-05-00)
Poisonous Plants, http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html
Los Angeles International Fern Society, http://smcdaniel.net/laifs/  Contact: mrmcd(at)citrus.ucr.edu (06-05-00)
Medicinal Plant Images, http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE Contact: hrbmoore(at)mindspring.com  (11-13-01)
North American Lichen Project, http://www.lichen.com Contact: jean.black(at)yale.edu (06-05-00)
Texas A&M University's Plant Answers, http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/web.html
A Tour of the Flynn Bogs System, http://csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/flynnbog/FB1.HTML Contact: manhart(at)mail.bio.tamu.edu
Transgenic Crops: an Introducation and Resource Guide, http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops
Seaweed, http://seaweed.ucg.ie/seaweed.html  Contact: mike.guiry(at)seaweed.ie
Utah Gap Analysis - Vegetation, http://www.nr.usu.edu/Geography-Department/utgeog/utgeog.veg.html
Vascular Plant Image Gallery, http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm
Vascular Plant Type Catalog, http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/
The Vetiver Network, http://www.vetiver.com/  Contact:  James Smyle(at)vetiver.org
Virginia Tech Weed Identification Guide, http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/rightsid.htm  Contact: shagood(at)vt.edu (11-02-00)
Woody Plant Ecology, http://members.tripod.co.uk/WoodyPlantEcology/  Contact: MikePalmer(at)btinternet.com (02-15-01)

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FLOWERS
Families of Flowering Plants, http://www.biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/index.htm
Flowerbase, http://www.flowerweb.com/
Flowering Dogwood, http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/flowering_dogwood.htm  
Flowering Plant Gateway, http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/gateopen.htm
The Greek Flower Portal, http://www.valentine.gr/portalenglish.htm
Language of Flowers, http://www.cyberflora.com/xc26.htm  Contact: web(at)cyberflora.com
Native Wildflowers of North Dakota, http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/wildflwr/wildflwr.htm
Orchards, http://www.orchards.org/ooc/na    

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PALEOVEGETATION
Links for Palaeobotanists, http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/palbot1.html  Contact: k-p.kelber(at)mail.uni-wuerzburg.de (06-05-00)
Paleobotany, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~daghlian/paleo/  Conatct: daghlian(at)dartmouth.edu (06-05-00)
Review and Atlas of Paleovegetation, http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tjms/adams1.html Contact: faure(at)riou.univ-mrs.fr  
USGS Vegetation Characterization Program, http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/    

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DIRECTORIES
The Electronic Plant Gene Register, http://www.tarweed.com/pgr/  Conatct: pgr(at)crcvms.unl.edu (06-05-00)
Forest History Society Bibliography, http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/biblio.html Contact: mjustice(at)duke.edu
Internet Directory for Botany, http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botgard.html  Contact: Raino.Lampinen(at)Helsinki.Fi (06-05-00)
Internet Directory for Botany, http://www.botany.net/IDB/
Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botart 
Vascular Plant Imiage Gallery, http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm  

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GENERAL BOTANY
Andean Botanical Information System, http://www.sacha.org/  Contact: webmaster(at)sacha.org
Bailey's eco-regions: description of the ecoregions of the United States, http://www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/ecoreg1_home.html Contact: comments(at)www.fs.fed.us
BioChemNet, http://www.schmidel.com/bionet/biology.htm  Contact: dyann(at)schmidel.com  (06-02-00)
Botany.com, The Encyclopedia of Plants, http://www.botany.com/
Botany Links, http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org/botlinks.html   Contact: aamador(at)yahoo.com  (06-01-00)
Botany of North America, http://www.botanique.com/  Contact: jm(at)botanique.com  (06-05-00)
Cyberbotanica, http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/botany/  Contact:  lusnyde(at)indiana.edu
Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, http://nmnhwww.si.edu/departments/botany.html  Contact: russell.rusty(at)nmnh.si.edu (06-05-00)
Internet Sites of Interest to Phycologists, http://www.upe.ac.za/botany/pssa/pssanet.htm  Contact: uperbt@upe.ac.za  (06-01-00)
Science and Technology-Biology-Botany, http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/PlantNet/cycad/wlist.html
Southern Illinois University-Botany, http://www.science.siu.edu/plant-biology/index.html
The Virtual Library of Botany, http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/www-vl/  Contact: srussell(at)ou.edu
Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany http://nmnhwww.si.edu/departments/botany.html

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TAXONARY
Integrated Taxonomic Information System, http://www.itis.usda.gov/plantproj/itis/  Contact: itiswebmaster(at)www.itis.usda.gov (06-05-00)
Integrated Taxonomic Information System, http://res.agr.ca/itis/ Contact:  itis(at)em.agr.ca

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CATALOGS
The Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/botart/art_cat.htm Contact: farr.ellen(at)nmnh.si.edu
Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botart/art_cat.htm
Catalog of North American Gymnosperms, http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/gymn/
Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps,http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html
The New York Botanical Garden Catalog of North American bryophytes, http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/bryo/ Contact: kindoe(at)nybg.org
Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botart/ 
Vascular Plant Image Gallery,
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm  

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COMMERCIAL
Ortho Home, http://www.ortho.com

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Dead Link Archive
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The Succulant Plant Page, http://www.graylab.ac.uk/usr/hodgkiss/succule.html  Contact: hodgkiss@graylab.ac.uk  (06-05-00)
Plant Link, http://www.plantamerica.com/palink.
Singapore Botanic Gardens Online, http://www.oub.com.sg/tourpark.htm Contact: NParks_MAILBOX(at)NPARKS.GOV.SG
Images of Dendrological and Developmental Facets of Tree Species, http://www.unb.ca/departs/forestry/species/species-fs.html   Contact: Y. Spithoven yolanda(at)unb.ca
A Guide to the use of Terms in Plant Pathology, http://www.bspp.org.uk/fbpp.htm  Contact: a.newton(at)scri.sari.ac.uk (06-05-00)
Gray Card Index, http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu//Data/Gray/gray.html
Biodiversity & Ecosystems Network-BENE, http://straylight.tamu.edu/bene/bene.html
Northern Gardening, http://www.win.bright.net/~tlyockey Contact: tlyockey(at)northerngardening.com
Ohio State University WebGarden, http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/webgarden.html
Algae Search - RIKEN, http://www.wdcm.riken.go.jp/htbin/ALGAE.pl
American Society for Plant Taxonomy Directory, http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/aspt/aspthome.htm
Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum) http://www.nmnh.si.edu/ing/
Texas A&M Plant Diversity Information Center, http://straylight.tamu.edu/tamu/pdic.html
USDI, FWS, Listed Species Information http://www.fws.gov/~r9endspp/endspp.html
Cacti, Other Succulants, and Caudiciforms, http://www.vvv.com/~amdigest/  Contact:  amatrdigest(at)pinc.com (06-05-00)
Tropical Rainforest in Suriname, http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/suriname/suri-eng.html Contact: mbleeker(at)euronet.nl
International Union of Forest Research Organizations, http://salava.metla.fi/iufro/ Contact: iufro(at)forvie.ac.at  (11-20-00)
Forest Alliance of British Columbia, http://forest.org/  Has a page of links.  (02-09-02)
Rainforest Center, http://forests.org/ric/  Contact:   RRosenhek(at)aol.com  (08-26-00)
Shades of Green: Earth's Forests, http://hyperion.advanced.org/17456/main1.html
Common Names of Plant Diseases, http://www.scisoc.org/resource/common/  Contact: aps(at)scisoc.org (06-05-00)
Ethnobotanical Resource Directory, http://hammock.ifas.ufl.edu/~michael/eb/  Contact: editor(at)cieer.org (06-05-00)
The Virtual Foliage Home Page, http://www.wisc.edu/botany/virtual.html  Contact: clayton(at)facstaff.wisc.edu (06-05-00)
Vegetable Crops Erosion Prediction Data, http://www.alcorn.edu/c-factor/nrcs1.htm
International Organization for Plant Information, http://iopi.csu.edu.au/iopi/ Contact: iopi(at)iopi.csu.edu.au
Internet Guide to Plant Taxonomy Sites, http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/an_names.htm#pla  Contact: webmaster(at)york.biosis.org  (06-05-00)
PhD Theses in Forest Genetics and Related Fields, http://www.tuzvo.sk/~paule/PHD.htm
Plant Systems Collection, http://www.wisc.edu/botit/systematics (09-05-01)
Botanical Society of America--Online Imgae Collection, http://www.botlinx.org/bsa/  Contact: srussell(at)ou.edu
Canadian Society for Horticultural, http://www.aic.ca/members/cshs.html Contact: liptaya(at)em.agr.ca   (10-17-00)
Garden.com, http://garden.com Contact: webmaster(at)garden.com
Seeds of Change Garden, http://www.nmnh.si.edu/garden/seasons/welcome.html Contact: webmaster(at)nmnh.si.edu
Forest History Society Archival Guide, http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/archguid.html
Plant Hormones, http://www.plant-hormones.bbsrc.ac.uk/  Contact: steve.croker(at)bbsrc.ac.uk  (06-05-00)

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