Botany: Web Resources

Literature on biodiversity digitized by natural history and botanical libraries. Contains journal articles and other texts on more than one million species names.

The Center for Plant Conservation is dedicated solely to preventing the extinction of U.S. native plants.

Includes a vascular plant checklist, Kentucky rare species list, and historical figures in Kentucky botany.

A collaborative effort among several internationally known natural history institutions, with the goal of providing detailed information about all 1.8 million species of organisms on Earth via a single, free web portal. Content is synthesized from published literature and verified by volunteer scientists. Most of the content is text, although multimedia and interactive content is available for some entries.

The Index Herbariorum entry for an herbarium includes its physical location, Web address, contents (e.g., number and type of specimens), history, and names, contact information and areas of expertise of associated staff.

This image database on integrated pest management allows the user to browse by commodity, taxonomy and damage type.

The Kentucky Native Plant Society was founded in 1986 for everyone interested in the native plants and wildflowers of Kentucky.

The Rare Plant Database provides information on endangered, threatened and species of concern plants monitored by Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission.

A database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native American peoples, derived from plants.

From Ohio State University, includes an internet search engine dealing strictly with plants, a searchable database of high quality plant images, a collection of short gardening how-to videos, answers to commonly asked gardening questions, and a glossary of commonly used horticultural terms.

Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories.

Botanical resources provided by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.