Botany

Items on this subject may be found in the following areas:580-589.999

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Botany
 

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Agricultural Research Service: GRIN Taxonomy  Authored by the United States Department of Agriculture, the Agricultural Research Service site provides links for searching a plant's species, genus and family names.                     http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/tax/

Flora of North America  Information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.  The entries present a description of the flora and areas in which the species may be found, including listings by state.  The site is hosted by Harvard University.   http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/

Internet Directory of Botany  The Internet Directory of Botany is an exhaustive index to botanical information available on the Internet, compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge / Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA), Raino Lampinen (Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland), Shunguo Liu (SHL Systemhouse, Edmonton, Canada) and Keith McCree (Oakridge, Oregon). The site is searchable via subject or alphabetical list. http://www.botany.net/IDB/        

Plants National Database  Compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, this database is a quality source of standardized information about plants.  The database centers on the United States and its territories. The Plants Database includes names, checklists,
automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant links, references, and other plant information.   http://plants.usda.gov/