Andes Biodiversity Consortium
The Andes Biodiversity Consortium (ABC) is a multidisciplinary team of researchers who have agreed to begin long-term integrative studies of biodiversity, climate, and land-use change relating to conservation in the tropical Andes.

Andean Botanical Information System (ABIS)
This well-organized site presents information from floristic and systematic investigations of the flowering plants of Andean South America.

Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants
Includes 2553 species of plants (trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, grasses, palms, pandans, mistletoes) of northern Australian rainforests from Broome in Western Australia to Townsville in Queensland. Over 11000 colour images of flowers, fruit, leaves, seedlings and leaf x-rays.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”

Botanical Word Meanings and Name Derivations
The author has done a great job in compiling this list of California plant name meanings, and the definitions can be applied to plant names worldwide.

Botany Guide Picks
This site is sponsored by About: Homework Help. Information and resources on plant viruses, herbs and plants, plant images and more. Good navigation and content.

Catalogue of Life
The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth.

Chileflora.com
Web site dedicated to the Chilean flora. Its main sections and content are: on-line herbarium of live Chilean plants with 1109 species, 9300+ photos, and many search indexes, articles of general interest on the Chilean flora, habitats of the Chilean plants, new findings by Chileflora and list of seeds (230 species) and seedlings (120 species) available for sale. The site is maintained currently in three languages (English, Spanish, German).

Concordance of Angiosperm Family Names
A quick searchable database for family names and their alternative uses by Cronquist, Dahlgren, Reveal, Takhtajan and Thorne. Prepared by James Reveal.

Expeditions and Discoveries
The new collection offers important—often unique—historical resources for students of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, geography, geology, medicine, oceanography, and zoology. The collection includes digitized copies of more than 250,000 pages from 700 books and serials, as well as 50,000 pages from Harvard's manuscript collections, more than 1,200 photographs, 200 maps, 21 atlases, and numerous drawings and prints.

e-journals.org
These are links to journals in which articles concerning plant biology are published. Contains links to over 700 journals!

EDIT
(the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy): A network of 28 major taxonomic institutions, devoted to making more powerful, more reliable and more applicable taxonomy.

Encyclopedia of Life (EoL)
EoL’s objective is to offer a webpage for every known species of life on Earth. Initiatives such as EoL depend on resources such as The Plant List in order to relate names to species so that all information about a particular species can more easily be obtained and synthesized.

Field Museum of Natural History - Botany
Check out what F botanists are doing on this well-designed and easy to navigate site.

Global Compositae Checklist
This is an integrated database of nomenclatural and taxonomic information for the second largest vascular plant family in the world.

Harvard University Herbaria Databases
The Harvard University Herbaria, with more than 5 million specimens, are one of the 10 largest Herbaria in the world in number of specimens, and along with the library, form the world's largest university owned herbarium.

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Part of Carnegie Mellon University, the Division documents the history of botany by acquiring and maintaining authoritive collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files. Sit back and surf.

Index Herbariorum
Part 1: The Herbaria of the World (Eighth Edition). Locate the mailing addresses and websites for all recognized herbaria. An invaluable resource.

Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum)
Searchable database of generic names for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation (IJBC)
This site is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. IJBC publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas relating to sustainable development, human dependence on biodiversity in agriculture, environmental management and biotechnology.

International Legume Database
ILDIS is an international project which maintains a database of plants in the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae) and provides services to scientists and other people interested in these plants, including this web-site for access to the database.

International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
Search this database of names and associated basic bibliographic details of all seed plants by Plant names, Authors, Publications, or Collectors. Includes data from Index Kewensis, Gray Card Index, and the Australian Plant Names Index.

Internet Directory for Botany
This site must have every single botanically-related website listed. Search alphabetically or by subject.

Linnaeus Link
Cool site. This collaboration between The Natural History Museum and a number of international partners aims to improve access to Linnaeus' works by the creation of high quality digital records.

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) - Botany
Your home for biological information on the web, this site contains a wealth of information, smartly and cleanly organized. Developed and maintained by the Center for Biological Informatics of the U.S. Geological Survey.

The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI).
Custodian of the nine National Botanical Gardens in South Africa. Contains information on NBI's databases and libraries, South African botanical gardens, and research.

Natural History Museum (London) Department of Botany Databases
This site contains a nice collection of images from several historic herbariums and from the other databases at BM.

Natural Selection
The UK's gateway to high quality internet resources relating to the natural world. Easy to search and sites have been thoroughly reviewed.

NewScientist | Botany Links
Great site! Each site listed is reviewed in depth.

PLANTS Database
This is an excellent site from the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA). Information is current, very well-maintained and organized.

The Plant List
This is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).

Q'TAXA Plant Resources Informatics Laboratory
This site from University of California-Riverside is "an interactive system for education and information on the diversity of life on earth." In Spanish and English.

Scott's Botanical Links
Sites are rated on a 4-star scale according to educational value, completeness and scientific correctedness. This is a great site with reviews and links to very obscure, but good sites.

Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations
A database of over 3000 black and white and color drawings of Bromeliaceae, Cactaceae, and Melastomataceae.

Specimen Management System for California Herbaria (SMASCH)
Database of text data and images of specimens that document the distribution and classification of the plants of California. Information from over 300,000 specimens has been entered.

Spellex Botanical
Turn your basic spell checker into a botanical word spelling expert with the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate botany spell checker ever developed. This site also contains a Free Internet Botanical Speller for individual word searches. Be sure to bookmark this page!

University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH)
This is a beautiful and easy to navigate site. Contains several searchable type specimen databases (Algae, Bryophytes, Lichens, Vascular Plants) and links to their Fungi and Diatom websites.

Vascular Plant Image Gallery Texas A & M University
Contains a large set of so-so images.

The Virtual Foliage Page
This collection of images is from the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Includes five sets of digital images: General Botany, Plant Systematics Teaching Collection, Dendrology, Fungi, and Vegetation of Wisconsin. Thousands of great images.

The Virtual Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden
This site allows you to search NY's entire specimen catalog of vascular and non-vascular plants and fungi. Few images.

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSPF)
This Checklist gives information on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families. It allows you to search for all the scientific names of a particular plant, or the areas of the world in which it grows (distribution).

This page was revised 12/29/11.