Links: Botany, Database and Pictures
This is a rather out of date list. I hope to rework the links section in the next few months.
In the meantime heres the old links pages.
Want to find out more about a particular plant, then have a look at the
following links.
On this page:
- Ethnobotany
- The study of the uses of plants world wide.
- Databases
- More information than you could possible dream of.
- Photos and pictures
- So what do all these wonderful plants look like?
And if you really want more links the Internet
Directory for Botany has nearly 3000. The Internet mining company has two
interesting and comprehensive sections: Botany
and Herbs For Health. The
AgriSurf! Agricultural Web Index looks
promising, a searchable index to over 6000 agricultural sites. And if you can't
find what your after try asking on one of the News Groups
and Mailing Lists.
Ethnobotany + Botany
I believe ethnobotany is the study of the uses of plants.
Ethnobotany Cafe
A chat room related to discussion of plants and their uses and their
relationship to culture. Also have a herb exchange where you can
exchange info about herbs. Also have info on wild foods and herbal
medicine.
Botanic Diversity Pages
(Use to be Chez Marcos) Lots of Photos, lots of links and a good introduction to botany.
And now feature super wizzy JavaScript stuff, which makes the PFAF site look positively tame.
Centre for Economic Botany, Kew
includes details of a Drylands plant database (off-line), and a massive list
of on and off line databases, and other Ethnobot resources. Also home to the
Society for Economic Botany UK Chapter.
A Mini-Course in
Medical Botany
The format leaves something to be desired but lots of good
stuff on medicinal uses of plants through out the world.
The Plant Kingdom
at Univ. Calf. Museum of Palaeontology. A really well done site with all sorts
of info, fossil records, ecology, systematics. Not quite comprehensive best
on higher level groups rather than individual species.
If you confused about all this
Latin name stuff, have a look at
A Note on Names.
Dictionary of Botanical
Epithets describing how some of the Latin names of plants were derived.
Sputnik Glossary of botanical terms
Lists the different parts of a plant and also has some good pics
illustrating the different parts.
Mining Company:
Botany Good bunch of Links, plus bulletin Boards, articles, etc.
Databases
Just about every plant you can think of is in some database or other, you'll often
need to know the exact Latin name to find it though.
Databases cross referenced with our search page
I've crossed referenced the following databases with the Plants For
A Future Species Database
(Introductions
search UK
US
Australia).
When you look up a plant in our database link to corresponding pages in
these other databases will be displayed.
Permaculture Plant Database (PCPDB).
We are in tor process of opening up the PFAF database to create a community
driven plant database, where people can contribute quality information and
pictures. Check here for the first draft of the database.
Ethnobotany
Database A massive online academic database of world-wide plant use, has
80,000 records! which list uses of plants, common and botanical names and regions
where there used , unfortunately that's it, nothing about how to use them or
growing them or other useful info.
Phytochemical Database
lots of info on composition of plants.
USDA Plants database.
Really rather big, info on most plants in the US and where they grow,
and when the Plant Guides section is done they will have
info on wildlife and economic uses.
HortiPlex
a nice database provided by GardenWeb
with 11,000 images and links to other sources of information.
GRIN Another big
database about the economic uses of plants. Only very broad
characteristics of uses though, and not much detail.
Checklist of the
Vascular Flora of the US Another big list of plants, good on common names,
and US distribution.
The Gatherer(c)
Search lots of databases (ours included) for information about a plant.
CalFlora
8363 Californian plants with lots of pretty pics. And distribution info.
Multilingual
Multiscript Plant Name Database Michel H. Porcher et al. 1995 - 2000, MULTILINGUAL
MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE, Landcare Systems Research Laboratory, Department
of Crop Production,Institute of Land and Food Resources, The University of Melbourne,
Australia. Contains indices of common names of plants, with emphasis on Japanese
and Chinese Names.
Lepidoptera and
some other life forms Started as a project on Moths and Butterflies. Now
encompasses plants as well, mainly just scientific and common name (English
and Finnish), but a good number of pics as well. Getting on for 7000 plants.
Plant Name Database
Allows conversion of names between Finnish, Swedish, English, German, French
and Latin
Botanical.com list 800+ types of
herbs taken from a 1931 Herbal book.
Dictionary of Botanical
Epithets describing how some of the Latin names of plants were derived.
Other Database
I haven't cross referenced these database yet.
UI Plants: woody ornimentals database
has good details of of identification, cultivation and
lots of photos.
International Plant Name Index a very large
database which combines several of the standard references for botanical names.
Could become a standard source.
The Plant Finder
by the Royal Horticultural Society: the source for finding where to get plants
from in the UK.
Silvics
of North America A very detailed guide to about 200 different trees which
grom in the US. Contains details of the growing range, life history, ecology.
One of the most coprehensive sources around.
Find Wildflowers Online
allows searchs by the botanical description of the plant i.e. thetype of flower
etc. Could be a very useful resource.
The Plants Database
a community driven database with 14,000+ images by many authors. Part of
Dave's Garden.
Horticopia 4000
plants with botanical and common names as well as a good range of pictures (with
their logo across the middle!).
The Dictionary of Common Names
from the Plant Press, has a good range of common names from many countries.
Den Virtuella Floran
database in Swedish good for Swedish/Norwegan/Finnish/German names.
The Flora of North America
A massive project to collect info on
approximately 20,000 species of vascular plants and bryophytes of North America. With distribution maps, images, and some use info.
World Species List A collection
of lists about the species (plants, animals & in betweens) for lots of places
round the world. They have really a rather large amount of links (300K). They
were kind enough to put us as the pick of the month for Jan '98. And have about
200 links to our site! Now I know why the hits have gone up. It lists such gems
as the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, red list of Threatened
Plants.
There's also a
Native American Food Plant and a
Medicinal Plant of Native America databases.
If you still want more there's
American Indian Ethnobotany Database which cover Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and
Fibres of Native North American Peoples.
FAO Tropical
Feeds Database Not very veganic, but a good list of plants, and other things
which can be used for animal feeds. With quite a bit of detail.
Famine
Foods "Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed
in times of famine. This botanical-humanistic subject has had little academic
exposure, and provides insight to potential new food sources that ordinarily
would not be considered." The database contains details of lots of interesting
plants with good references to the literature.
AgDB
A meta-database of thousands of other databases to do with agriculture.
California Rare Fruit Growers, Fruit List has 700 individual fruits listed by Latin and Common names,
with some growing info.
The Postcode Plant Database
Find out what species might inhabit your local area (UK Only).
New Crop Resource Online Program
A university department researching lots of new crops, they have a searchable
and browsable index of documents about many new crops, some but not all of our
favourite plants are there.
TreeWeb Lots of info
on lots of trees, inc. ecology, sites and soils, and some of the uses.
Gernot Katzer's
Spice Dictionary details of over 100 different herbs and spices, including
pictures, 4000 different common names from all over the world, Etymology and
lots of interesting facts.
W3TROPICOS
a big nomeculture database with citations. Put together by the Missouri Botanical
Garden. Has lots of images, specimen lists.
Plant Elements of
Design at the University of Minnesota. Basic info on 500 plants woody plants
and a similar number of herbaceous plants.
Mining Company: Herbs for Health
Follow resource list, then Herb and Plant Databases and Searches
for more links to databases. Also Vegetable
Gardens page has a good list of Ethnobotany resources.
IOPI Database of Plant
Databases (DPD) Ever wondered what database you local Museum has? Here the
place to find out.
International Legume
Database & Information Service has good litrature references, geographic
info and uses.
Species 2000Grand Project to
index all the worlds species!
New Plant Page
Put together my the New Ornamentals Society, this list a whole
stack of new cultivars of ornamental plants, with links to
of suppliers and links to articles about the plants.
Time Life's Virtual Garden
3000 species with photo's, descriptions of the plant and some growing info.
Home Horticulture
at Michigan State University Extension, lots of articles
on topics like growing Hickory, and specific plants pests and diseases.
Plus loads of pictures.
International Phytocomputing
Society Devoted to PC-bassed plant databases and other plant/gardening software.
Has A list of several CD ROM's.
HerbMed
Medicinal details on a dozen of the more well know herbal plants,
extensive citations from MedLine.
Gardening.com's
Plant Encyclopaedia A nice database geared to the gardener with photos and
basic info. Good for pests and problems of plants. Not so much on the uses of
plants.
Experimental Biodiversity Information
System An attempt to provide a common standard for bio-diversity information
using the Z39.50 standard. It looks likely the PFAF database might be converted
to run under this standard.
Worldwide Botanical Knowledge Base not
a database as yet, but some intresting ideas on XML etc.
Useful Wild Plants publish
an encyclopedia of The Useful Wild Plants of Texas, the Southeastern and Southwestern
United States, the Southern Plains, and Northern Mexico. Not online, but an
intresting wild plant quiz.
Anglo-Saxon
Plant-Name Survey has details of old names used for plants.
Photos and Pictures
Galleries cross referenced with our search page
As above I've crossed referenced the following photo galleries with the
Plants For A Future Species Database.
Chez Marco's has a very good
indexed list of
plant photos, which you can browse by Latin Name and family. Especially good on rainforest plants, non flowering plants and Asteridae.
Southwest School of Botanical MedicineThis is a good site. Lots of pics of herbs and other plants
CalPhoto
8363 Californian plants with lots of pretty pics. And distribution info.
UDSA PLANTS Photo Gallery
A searchable list of plant pictures which can be used by non-commercial organisations.
Vascular Plant Image Gallery
at Texas ASM Uni. Bioinformatics Working Group. Big selection of pictures here.
Finnish Photos
Good bunch of photos and good quality, mainly taken in Finland.
University of Washington Medicinal Herb Garden pics of about 100 herbs.
Other Photo Galleries
The Virtual Foliage Home
Page Big repository of plant pics, plus an opportunity to explore gopher
space.
The Internet Directory for Botany also has an extensive list of sites with plant pics.
Three Hawaiin sites with lots of picture:
Hawaii Native Plant Propagation Database
Hawaiin Native Plant Genera and
Images and Descriptions of Flowering Plant Families - Alphabetical
Durham Uni Botanic Garden 100 or so plant pictures.
Plant Pictures
on Henriette's Herbal Homepage. Mainly Herbs.
Hortus Botanicus Catinensis
Nearly 900 photos from this Italian botanical garden.
Flowerbase a searchable
index of 7,000 pictures of flowers, plants and garden plants. Which serves as
an advert for their commercial CD-ROM.
English Wild Flowers
some pictures of English wild flowers.
Graham's Paradise Garden
A tour through a urban cottage garden. Lots of pics of mostly ornamental
plants.
Ohio's states
database of 3,878 images of 600 ornamental plants.
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