List of Selected Botanically Related

Internet Addresses

This list is being updated regularly and a version will be published in the Illustrated Flora of East Texas.

The following list of internet addresses is intended to provide an entry point into what is a very large and constantly changing pool of information of interest to botanists; it is by no means an attempt at a comprehensive listing. Some of the addresses will soon be outdated, while others are likely to be constant for significant periods of time. One of the major advantages to botanists of this information explosion is that extensive information is accessible from one's desk even without access to major botanical libraries or institutions. This is particularly important to botanists at small colleges and universities. The addresses below have been obtained from the internet, Miller, N.G. and J.E. Arriagada (2000), and from unpublished lists by N.G. Miller, Jorge E. Arriagada, and Rahmona Thompson.

The web addresses below are divided into the following categories (the categories are intended for convenience; there are many other ways in which the material could have been organized):

Botanical Organization
Projects, & Institutions

Plant Images

Tools Useful to Botanists

Useful Non-botanical Tools

Links/Directories/Web Servers

Texas Botany

Gardening, Horticulture, etc.

Conservation

Poisonous & Medicinal Plants

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I. Botanical Organizations, Projects, and Institutions

Alien Plant Webpage---The Alien Plant Working Group
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/

American Forests
http://www.americanforests.org/

American Society of Plant Taxonomists (home page and to find addresses of members)
http://www.sysbot.org/

The Ancient Cross Timbers Project
http://www.uark.edu/misc/xtimber/

Bioinformatics Working Group---Texas A&M University
http://csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tamuherb.htm

Biota of North America Program (BONAP)
http://www.bonap.org/

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)
http://www.brit.org

Botanical Society of America
http://www.botany.org

Cornell University Botanical Garden
http://www.plantations.cornell.edu/

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries
http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/CBHL/CBHL.html

Flora of North America
http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/

Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States Project
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herbarium/genflor/

Gray Herbarium of Harvard University
http://www.huh.harvard.edu/

International Association for Plant Taxonomy
http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IAPT/default.htm

International Organization for Plant Information
http://lorenz.mur.csu.edu.au/iopi/

Jepson and University of California at Berkeley Herbaria
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
http://www.wildflower.org/

Missouri Botanical Garden
http://www.mobot.org/welcome.html

National Biological Information Infrastructure
http://www.nbii.gov/search/sitemap.html

Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA)
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/

New York Botanical Garden
http://www.nybg.org/

Ohio State Main Plant Page
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/plants.html

Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
http://www.ots.duke.edu/

Plants for the Future (a resource center for edible and other useful plants)
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/index.html

Plant Resources Center---University of Texas-Austin
http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk

Sida, Contributions to Botany
http://www.brit.org/sida/

Smithsonian Institution Botany Department
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/departments/botany.html

Texas A&M University Tracy Herbarium
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/taes/tracy/homeNF.html

Texas Agricultural Extension Service (County Offices)
http://county-tx.tamu.edu/

Texas Agricultural Extension Service (Research Centers)
http://agprogram.tamu.edu/who/members/recenter.html

Texas Botanical Garden Society
http://www.inetport.com/~texasbot/

Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/

Texas Forest Service
http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/

Tree of Life (information about phylogeny and biodiversity)
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

Texas Nature Conservancy
http://www.texasnature.org

University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) Web Lift to Taxa (general information on plant groups)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/taxaform.html

University of Michigan Herbarium
http://www.herb.lsa.umich.edu/umherb.htm

University of Texas Herbaria
http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Botany
http://www.wisc.edu/botany

Wildland Invasive Species Program---The Nature Conservancy
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/

II. Plant Images

Agricultural Research Service Image Gallery (for plant images)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html

Aquatic, Wetland, and Invasive Plant Line Drawings
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/linedr.html

Biological Image File
http://www.keil.ukans.edu/bio_image_archive/

Botanical Images Catalog---The Smithsonian Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botart/

Carnivorous Plant Images
http://www2.labs.agilent.com/bot/cp_home

Horticultural and Food Crop Images
http://ucs.byu.edu/bioag/aghort/aghort100/images.htm

Horticultural Plant Images
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu:90/pmi_4/FMPro?-db=PMI4&-lay=input&-format=plantsnew.html&-view

Linnaean Herbarium Specimen Images
http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/fbo/welcome.html.en

Medical Plant Images
http://www.ibiblio.org/london/rgfaqs/culinary-herbs/SWSBM/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html

Plant Image Gallery
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/

Plant Images (Steve's Photos)
http://arnica.csustan.edu/photos/index.htm

Smithsonian Institution Botany Department (botanical illustrations)
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/images.htm

Virtual Foliage Home Page (plant images)
http://www.wisc.edu/botany/virtual.html

III.Tools Useful to Botanists

A. Databases Including Plant Names/Nomenclature

Alien Plant Database---Alien Plant Working Group
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/factmain.htm#pllists

Aquatic, Wetland, and Invasive Plant Database
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/

Arabidopsis---The Definitive Website
http://www.arabidopsis.org

The Botanic Sorting Machine---Information on Taxonomy and Plant Geography
http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/folis/bsmain-e.html

Botanical Collectors Database (information on plant collectors)
http://herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Collectors/collectors.html

Botanical Databases at the Smithsonian Institution
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/database.htm

Checklist (synonymized) of Vascular Flora North of Mexico (a checklist and more; BONAP/Kartesz data from 1998)
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/b98/check98.htm

Families of Flowering Plants (detailed family descriptions-geography, biochemistry, anatomy, pollination, etc.)
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/index.htm

Flora Europaea Database
http://www.rbge.org.uk/forms/fe.html

Flora2k --- Biodiversity on the Internet (to access nomenclatural and family information)
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/kartesz/flora2ka.htm

Flowering Plant Gateway (for plant family information)
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfp/vascdoc1.htm

Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/tax/

Gray Herbarium Card Index (to find scientific names)
http://herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Gray/search.html

Index Herbariorum (Database of U.S. Institutions)
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html

Index Nominum Genericorum
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/ing/

Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium Project
http://matrix.nal.usda.gov:8080/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=suprag.txt&id=anon&pass=&OK=OK

Integrated Taxonomic Information System Database Query
http://www.itis.usda.gov/itis/itis_query.html

International Organization for Plant Information (database of plant databases)
http://iopi.csu.edu.au/iopi/iopidpd1.html

International Organization for Plant Information--- Global Plant Checklist, Provisional
http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iopi/gpc/

International Plant Name Index
http://www.ipni.org/searches/query_ipni.shtml

Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/ncu/genera/

New York Botanical Garden (searchable databases)
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/online_pubs.html

Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/index.html

Plant Chromosome Numbers Database
http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/ipcn.html

Plant-Link (search engine for plant information)
http://www.dpw.wageningen-ur.nl/links/

Plants for the Future (a species database of useful plants)
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/D_intro.html

PLANTS National Database (USDA)
http://plants.usda.gov/plants

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Databases
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/index.html

TreeBASE---A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge
http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/treebase/

TROPICOS (Worldwide Nomenclature Database-Missouri Botanical Garden)
http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html

Vascular Plant Family Names in Current Use
http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBIO/fam/ncu.html

World Species Index
http://www.sp2000.org/

B. Floras

Arkansas Vascular Plants
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/arkansas/arkindex.htm

Louisiana Grasses
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/lagrasses/lahome1.htm

C. Plant Taxonomic Material /Rules

American Society of Plant Taxonomist Membership List (to located botanists)
http://www.sysbot.org/members.htm

Association of Systematics Collections (information on collection standards )
gopher://www.keil.ukans.edu:70/11/standards/asc

Authors of Plant Names (standard Brummitt & Powell abbreviations)
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/web.dbs/authform.html

Biological Nomenclature in the 21st Century
http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBIO/nomcl/indx.html

Code Based on a Phylogenetic (cladistic) Theme
http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/

DELTA (Descriptive Language for Taxonomy)
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/

Draft BioCode (1997): the prospective international rules for the scientific names of organisms
http://www.rom.on.ca/biodiversity/biocode/biocode1997.html

Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI)
http://www.eti.bio.uva.nl/

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code)
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/tokyo-e/

Plant Taxonomists Online (to find addresses)
gopher://gopher.unm.edu:70/00/academic/biology/pto/address.test

World Taxonomists Database
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/Database.html

World Wide Plant Family Identifier
http://www.colby.edu/info.tech/BI211/PlantFamilyID.html

D. Searching the Botanical Literature

AGRICOLA database---National Agricultural Library (to search for journal articles, etc.)
www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/ag98.html

Index to American Botanical Literature (excellent source of information about American botany reference)
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/iabl.html

Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature (excellent source of botany references going back to 1970)
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/kr/KRHomeExt.html

IV. Useful Non-botanical Tools

Austin College Abell Library---Virtual Library
http://www.austinc.edu/Abell/Elinfor/virtlib.html

Careers in Botany---Botanical Society of America)
http://www.botany.org/bsa/careers/

Cartographic Links for Botanists
http://www.helsinki.fi/~rlampine/cartogr.html

CIA World Fact Book (maps and information about countries worldwide)
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Environmental News Network
http://www.enn.com/

Geographic Names Browser
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html

Geographic Names Information System
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html

Government Webpages Database (searches over 1.5 million government and military webpages)
http://www.firstgov.gov/

MLA (Modern Language Association) (How to cite electronic sources)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

National Atlas of the United States
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/

Translation Service/AltaVista (to translate material to or from various languages)
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/

V. Links/Directories/Web Servers

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
http://www.keil.ukans.edu/ or http://biodiversity.uno.edu/

Biodiversity Related Web Sites (a links page)
http://www.abi.org/

Botanical Databases at the Smithsonian Institution
http://www.sil.si.edu/Branches/botany-hp.htm

Botanical Society of America Botany Related WWW Sites
http://www.botany.org/bsa/www-bot.html

Botany Journals Webpage (links to journals on the web)
http://www.e-journals.org/botany/

Botany Resources
http://www.keil.ukans.edu/cgi-bin/hl?botany

Internet Directory for Botany
http://www.botany.net/IDB/

Major WWW and Internet botany addresses (numerous sites)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBIO/FindIT/botd.html

Noxious Weed Webpage (links to many noxious weed web sites)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/

Plant Systematics and Evolution Links
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfp/tfplinks.html

Search Engine for Plant related Questions
http://plantfacts.ohio-state.edu

Scott's Botanical Links
http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/

Vegetation Maps from All Regions of the World
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html

Virtual Library: Botany
http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/www-vl/

Virtual Library---Evolution (Biosciences)
http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html

Wildflower Links
http://www.wild-flowers.com/

World Species List (links to plant sites around the world)
http://www.envirolink.org/species/

VI. Texas Botany

Benny Simpson’s Native Texas Trees
http://dallas.tamu.edu/native/

Big Thicket National Preserve
http://www.nps.gov/bith/

Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/taes/tracy/coverNF.html

Endemics Checklist for Texas
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/endemics/endemic1.htm

Flora of Texas Consortium
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/ftc/ftchome.htm

Herbarium Specimen Browser (over 130,000 Texas herbarium specimens online)
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/ftc/ftchsb.htm

Illustrated Flora of East Texas Project
http://artemis.austinc.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/EastTxFlora.html

Illustrated Texas Floras Project
http://artemis.austinc.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/floras.html

Native Plant Society of Texas
http://www.npsot.org/

Shinners & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas
http://artemis.austinc.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/shinners.html

Texas Big Tree Registry
http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/urban%5Fforestry/tx%5Fbig%5Ftree%5Fregistry.html

Texas Department of Agriculture
http://www.agr.state.tx.us

Texas Mints (some images and descriptions)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/LSL/Mints/

The Vascular Flora of Madison County, Texas
http://BIOCOURSE.BIO.TAMU.EDU/graduate-students/neilla/madhome.htm

Wildflowers in Texas (images)
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Wildflowers/Project/wild4.html

VII. Gardening/Horticultural/Agricultural/Pratical Information (Applied Botany)

Common Names with their Scientific Names
http://www.b-and-t-world-seeds.com/coma.htm

Distributed Network of Agricultural-related information
http://www.agnic.org

Encyclopedia of Plants-Botany.com (horticultural information)
http://www.botany.com/

Forestry Information and Links
http://silva.tamu.edu/links/

Forestry Resources
http://www.forestworld.com

Genus of the Month
http://fisher.bio.umb.edu/pages/JFGenus/Jfgenus.htm

Orchid Weblopedia
http://conbio.bio.uci.edu/orchid/

Plant Trivia Timeline
http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Timeline.html

Seed Exchange
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/stse/

Seed Resources
http://www.seedquest.com/

Tree Descriptions for 680 Trees
http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/family.htm

Trees in North America
http://www.treeguide.com/

Virtual Garden (a lot of gardening information)
http://www.vg.com/

What Are All Those Dead Plants For, Anyway?
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/dead_plants.html

VIII. Conservation

Biodiversity Worldmap
http://spider.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap/

Bionet-International---Global Network for Taxonomy in Developing Countries
http://www.bionet-intl.org

Center for Biological Diversity Website
http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/

Center for Conservation Biology Network
http://conbio.rice.edu/network

Champion Trees Webpage
http://www.championtrees.org/

Convention on Biological Diversity Website
http://www.biodiv.org/

Endangered Species and International Trade
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/conservation/cites-ind.html

Endangered and Threatened Species
http://endangered.fws.gov/

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/endang/

Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/

Global Environmental Facility Website
http://www.gefweb.org

Globally Threatened Trees
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/trees/

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad Website---a Costa Rican Organization
http://www.inbio.ac.cr/es/default.html

National Register of Big Trees
http://www.americanforests.org/big_trees/

Native Plant Conservation Initiative
http://www.nps.gov/plants/

Native Prairies Association of Texas
http://www.texasprairie.org/

Natural Area Preservation Association
http://www.cep.unt.edu/napa/

Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plant Materials Program
http://plant-materials.nrcs.usda.gov/

Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plant Materials Program, East Texas Office
http://plant-materials.nrcs.usda.gov/etpmc/index.html

Nature Conservancy
http://www.tnc.org

Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/

Texas Committee on Natural Resources
http://tconr.home.texas.net/

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us

Texas Nature Conservancy
http://www.tnctexas.org/

Virtual Library of Ecology, Biodiversity and the Environment
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl

World Conservation Monitoring Centre
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/

Worldwatch Institute
http://www.worldwatch.org

IX. Poisonous and Medicinal Plants

Medicinal and Economic Botany Links
http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBIO/FindIT/ecmd.html

Medicinal Plants---Images, Classic Publications and Resources
http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html

Poisonous Plant Links
http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBIO/FindIT/popl.html

Poisonous Plants Information System-Canada
http://res.agr.ca/brd/poisonpl/

Poisonous Plants Webpage---Cornell University
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/plants.html