Floras, and the Botany of Geographic Areas (representative)

These are generally in geographical sequence in the stacks, some are books, bound reprints, unpublished reports, and some are serial monographs (Flora neotropica).  There are regional and local floras of various ages.  These can provide references to systematic treatments, currently accepted names, type citations, specimen locations, herbarium label verification, etc.

• Atrium biodiversity information system organizes data generated through the research activity of the Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Calflora, about plants that grow wild in California (both native plants and weeds)
• A California Flora (Philip A. Munz) with supplement.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959, 1973 (QK149 .M86 1973).
• E-floras.org
• Flora Iberica
• Flora of North America: north of Mexico (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993- (QK110 .F55 1993)    Flora of North American online
• Gesneriaceae Research (bibliography and checklist) Smithsonian
• Grassbase, the online world grass flora
• History of the statewide floras of California (Humboldt State University)
• Index hepaticarum (Geneva Botanic Garden)
• Index of mosses (Missouri Botanical Garden)
• Jepson flora project includes:
  • Consortium of California herbaria
  • Ecological flora of California provides information on a broad suite of ecological traits, including life history, phenology, and morphology.
  • Electronic, interactive identification keys for California
  • Flora of California currently consists of the digitized content from the original work begun by Jepson (1909-1979).
  • Index to California plant names is intended to account for names people are likely to encounter, from whatever source, and to summarize the status of such names with respect to the first printing of The Jepson manual, and to the flora of California as it is understood presently by authors contributing to the Second Edition..
  • Jepson horticultural database is the horticulture information provided in the first edition of The Jepson Manual for more than 3,500 native species.
  • Jepson manual online (Index to Treatments and Keys from the Jepson Manual) treats the nearly 8,000 vascular plant taxa native or naturalized in California. It represents the most comprehensive guide to the state flora and includes special information such as horticultural requirements, endangerment, toxicity, weed status, and notes on the management of sensitive species.
  • Jepson online interchange provides the latest information on identification, taxonomy, distribution, ecology, relationships, and diversity of California vascular plants.
• The Jepson manual: higher plants of California (James C. Hickman, ed.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983 (QK149 .J56 1993)
• Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana is an electronic version of this 58-volume historic work
• Flora brasiliensis.  Largest flora ever published.
• A flora of North America: containing abridged descriptions of all the known indigenous and naturalized plants growing north of Mexico; arranged according to the natural system (John Torrey and Asa Gray).  New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838-43, 2 vols. Incomplete (QK110 .T69).
• Geographical guide to floras of the world, an annotated list with special reference to useful plants and common plant names (Alice C. Atwood & S.F. Blake) Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942-61 (Z5358 .A12 B5). Also a source for who has worked on flora of an area.
• Guide to standard floras of the world : an annotated, geographically arranged systematic bibliography of the principal floras, enumerations, checklists, and chorological atlases of different areas (D.G. Frodin)  2^nd ed.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (Z5351 .F76 2001 Reference).  Annotated, geographically arranged bibliography of the principal floras, enumerations, checklists, and chorological atlases of different areas.
• Gymnosperm database
• A manual of Southern California botany (Philip A. Munz). Claremont, CA: The Claremont Colleges, 1935 (QK149 .M8 1935)
• Native plants database.  U.S.
• Plant atlas is an evolving partnership of herbaria, universities, conservation organizations, government agencies and information technology professionals. Project partners are united by a common need to manage and disseminate vascular and non-vascular plant information with colleagues and the public.  Current partners are Florida and New York.
• Reports of explorations and surveys : to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean [“Pacific railroad reports”]  Washington, Nicholson, 1855-60 (581.973 Un32 Special Collections).  The University of Michigan’s Making of America project has scanned the entire set of reports which are available online.  The Library of Congress has also prepared a page linking to the contents and has related maps online.  (Also see the CPRR Museum’s books on-line page for further information and a map of the routes explored, and also reproductions of some of the colored engravings.)
• A selected guide to literature on the flowering plants of Mexico (Ida Kaplan Langman).  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964 (QK211 .L36 1964 Reference). Cites lots of obscure papers.