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Anigozanthos viridis, photo by R.A. Howard

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The West Indies are an archipelago with more than one thousand islands that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea. This website presents a checklist of the currently accepted scientific names of seed plants from the West Indies, including synonomy and distribution by island.

Georeferencing Plants of the Guiana Shield

Google Earth placemark for a specimen from Guyana.

Type specimens in the U.S. National Herbarium from the Guiana Shield region have been georeferenced and a Google Map display and Google Earth placemarks are provided. A discussion of the methodology for determining coordinates for older specimens is presented.

Search this site for plant names.

Looking for a specific plant? Enter a generic name in the 'Finding Information' box in the right column and discover which species are covered in each of our 13 online research and image databases.

Collections

Type Specimen Images and U.S. National Herbarium Type Register

Botany Specimens in the Museum's Collections Information System

Collections Overview

History of the U.S. National Herbarium

Information for Visitors

Collections Management Policy Index (Index / Full Text)

Collector's Field Books and Miscellaneous Notes

Historical Collections in the U.S. National Herbarium

Loan Policies

Georeferencing Plants of the Guiana Shield: US Types

Inventoried Plant Groups

DC Herbarium Collections

US Specimens of Merrill's Species Blancoanae

Wood Collection

Research

Current Research Areas

Algae

Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield

Flora of the Hawaiian Islands

Flora of the Marquesas Islands

Flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area

Flora of the West Indies

Gesneriaceae Research

Grass Research

Myanmar Research

Onagraceae Research

Plant Conservation Unit

Zingiberales

Other Projects

Forster Collections

Lichens

Awards and Endowments

Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany

The José Cuatrecasas Botanical Endowment

Publications

Newsletters

The Plant Press

Biological Conservation Newsletter

Searchable Database of Publications by Botany Staff

Contributions from the United States National Herbarium

List of Publications in the Contributions series and links to available PDF versions and Web sites.

Smithsonian Contributions to Botany

Searchable list of publications. Publications offered in digital format.

On-line Versions of Staff Publications

Centres of Plant Diversity

Checklist of the Flora of the Guianas

Checklist of the Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area

Identifying Harmful Marine Dinoflagellates

Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)

Preliminary Checklist of the Plants of Kaieteur National Park, Guyana

World Checklist of Gesneriaceae

Bibliographies

Annotated Bibliography of the Gesneriaceae

Bibliography for the Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area

Bibliography of the Biological Conservation Newsletter

Marine Floras for the Americas

Trinius Herbarium Literature

Photographs and
Botanical Illustrations

[Image Use Policy]

Type Specimen Images

Botanical Illustrations

Plant Image Collection

Flower Gallery for the Washington-Baltimore Area

Image Gallery for the Hawaiian Islands

Image Gallery for the Marquesas Islands

Greenhouse Highlight Archives

Representative taxa in Families of Zingiberales

Stahl Watercolor Collection

Proposed Smithsonian Center for Botanical Art and Illustration

Partners

Links to Botany's national and international partners in research, collections, training, and public outreach.

U.S. Botanic Garden of Washington DC
Plant Talk -- Supporting Plant Conservation Worldwide
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Botany and Horticulture Library, Smithsonian Institution
Horticulture Services Division, Smithsonian Institution

Events and Activities

The Department of Botany hosts events and activities throughout the year to explore and recognize achievements in the botanical community. The following list provides the most current of these projects.

Botany Seminar Schedule

Smithsonian Botanical Symposium Archive Site

Cuatrecasas Medal Award

Return of the Titan - the Titan Arum Blooms (2005)

Titan Arum Gets Cut Down to Size (2003)

References and Tools

Useful Botanical Links

A page of links to botanical resources on the Web.

Nomenclatural Tools

Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)

Conserved and Rejected Plant Names: Proposals and Disposals

Confusable Names