Plant Resources

• Botanic Gardens Conservation International, includes a plant search and a directory of botanic gardens.

• Checklist of online vegetation and plant distribution maps UC Berkeley

• A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns, 8^th ed. (Shaw, Herbert Kenneth Airy).  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973 (QK11 .W53 1973).  First published under the title: A manual and dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns, by J.C. Willis in 1897.

• Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation databases
  These include:
  1. BPH online
  2. Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection
  3. Categorical glossary for the Flora of North America Project
  4. Comprehensive scheme for standardized abbreviation of usable plant-family names and type-based suprafamilial names
  5. Index to binomials cited in the first edition of Linnaeus’ Species plantarum
  6. Index to scientific names of organisms cited in the Linnaean dissertations
  7. Original Linnaean dissertations
  8. Register of original botanical art.

• Index to plant chromosome numbers is an index of original plant chromosome numbers of naturally occurring and cultivated plants published throughout the world.  Prior to that date use:  Chromosome atlas of flowering plants (C.D. Darlington & A. P. Wylie) 2^nd edition, London: Allen & Unwin, 1955 (QK725.D18 1955), print Index to plant chromosome numbers, 1956-79 (Cave, Ornduff, and Moore) QK725 C66.

• Mabberley’s plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classifications and uses (David J. Mabberley).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 (QK11 .M29 2008).  Utilizing Kubitzki’s The families and genera of vascular plants (1990- ) and current botanical literature; arranged according to the principles of molecular systematics.

• Multisite searches [of living plant collections] is a Kew-sponsored meta-search of many significant living collections and conservation databases

• National plant germplasm system [GRIN = Germplasm Resources Information Network]  is a cooperative effort by public (state and federal) and private organizations to preserve the genetic diversity of plants by documenting crop germplasm information.

• Phylogeny programs is a comprehensive list of available computer programs.

• Plant information online is a directory of plants available from North American nurseries, citations to plants in science and garden literature, links to selected websites for images and regional information about plants, and information on North American seed and nursery firms

• Red data book (IUCN red list of threatened species) provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on threatened taxa.

• TROPICOS includes all of the nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data in Missouri Botanical Garden’s electronic databases with over one million scientific names, 3.4 million specimen records, 111,000 bibliographic citations, and more than 70,000 images of living plants and specimens.