Fogler Library

Botany 

Introduction

The following is a brief, selected guide to botanical information resources available in Fogler Library, through the Fogler Library home page, and the World Wide Web.


Indexes and Abstracts | Botany Journals Author Instruction Pages | Dictionaries, Glossaries, Encyclopedias | Directories | Herbaria | Electronic Journals | Field and Identification Guides, Checklists, Keys, Atlases | Handbooks and Manuals | Associations and Societies | Virtual Libraries


Botany photo of the day. University of British Columbia Botanical Garden


New Resources since 3/7/2008

2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesIUCN - The World Conservation Union 

Noxious weeds in the US and Canada. Invaders Database System. Supported by USDA/ARS. Investigators from the University of Nebraska, USDA/ARS Western Region Research Center, and the University of Montana


URSUS

URSUS - the online catalogue of the University of Maine System, contains a wealth of information on botany and related topics. Searching is by author, title, keyword, subject, and call number. Through URSUS you can find books, conference, symposium, and workshop proceeding volumes, University of Maine theses and dissertations, and state, federal, Canadian, and other international documents. Material is catalogued by Library of Congress Subject Headings. The following subject headings may get you started in your search:

aquatic plants, botanical chemistry, botany - classificationethnobotany, herbaria, mycology, paleobotany, plant ecology, plant embryology, plant morphology, seedlings, vegetation and climate

A good way to search URSUS is by keyword. Using the keyword search option you can combine various keywords together using AND, OR, and parentheses. For example, if you wanted to find information on aquatic plants in Maine your search might look like this:

(marine or aquatic) and (botany or plant or plants) and maine

Once you have found something of interest note the subject headings and use these in your search.

Indexes and Abstracts

Agricola 1970-present online
Bibliography of Agriculture. ORO Sci Index S1.U52. 1942-1996 (1980-1996 in Annex)
. If you are connecting to this database off the University of Maine campus but within the State of Maine, please connect through Maine's Science, Technology & Business Library.
Index to materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions. Includes journal articles, monographs, series, and materials in many non-print formats covering a broad range of agricultural topics. NAL provides a Journals Indexed in Agricola.  The Bibliography of Agriculture (print form of Agricola) can be searched by subject, author, and geographic location. The Web version can be searched in a variety of ways including author, title and abstract keyword, and CAB descriptors. From 1979-1985 international in scope. From 1985+ focuses on U.S. related publications. Note that the National Agricultural Library provides its own Web interface to Agricola from 1970 to present. There is an online thesaurus.  Updated monthly.

APIRS Online - the Database of Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plants. Aquatic Plant Information Retrieval System from the Center for Aquatic Plants, University of Florida. 55,000+ citations on ecology, physiology, utilization, and control. 

BIOSIS Previews [computer file], 1926-present
Biological Abstracts. 1927-present. Sci Index QH 301.B4
Biological Abstracts/RRM
. 1979-present. Sci Index QH 301.B55
BIOSIS Previews, worldwide in scope, indexes the literature of the biological and biomedical sciences. The premier database in the biological sciences, subject coverage includes agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Approximately 5,500 serial publications (see Biosis Previews serials list) as well as books, proceedings and meeting abstracts, technical reports, review papers, and patents are indexed. There are 58 separate data fields that can be searched including author, title, publication source, organism, concepts, super taxa, publication type, author affiliation, and abstract keyword. Searches can be limited to review articles.

Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System. Derek B. Munro, Biological Resources Program, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Carnivorous Plant Database
Nomenclature synopsis for 3,000+ carnivorous plants. Maintained by Rick Walker, HP Labs. last updated 8/25/2006.  See also Carnivorous Plant Photo Finder. Bob Ziemer, Humboldt State University.

Current Research Information System
A searchable database of U.S. Department of Agriculture funded research. Search by keyword, investigator, agency, institution, state, and project status and type. Many records include a list of publications resulting from the research.

FDA Poisonous Plant Database 
An searchable database of over 85,000 references on poisonous plants. Maintained by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages.  Last updated 3/2006

Fungal databases
A set of databases from the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, USDA, Agricultural Research Service.  Includes literature, fungal-host,  nomenclature, and specimen database. Fully searchable.

Index to American Botanical Literature
A searchable database of American botanical literature from late 1995 to present.  Search by subject category (eg. algae, fungi, etc.), author, article title, journal name, publisher, and keywords.  New York Botanical Garden.

Index to Mosses Database (W3MOST)
Searchable by scientific name. Project of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

JSTOR
A searchable database of full-text scholarly journals including several major botanical journals: American Journal of Botany (1914-1998), Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1914-1998), Brittonia (1931-1998), International Journal of Plant Sciences (1992-1998) - Botanical Gazette (1876-1991) - Botanical Bulletin (1875-1876), Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (1997-2000) - Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1870-1996), Missouri Botanical Garden Annual Report (1890-1912), New Phytologist (1902-2000), and Systematic Botany (1976-1998).  

Mycological Literature Database
A searchable database of mycological literature. Forest mycology and mycorrhiza research team, Forest Science s Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR.

Native American Ethnobotany Database - Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples
A searchable database of uses of over 4,000 plant species from 243 plant families. Authored by Daniel E. Moerman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Plantfacts Factsheet Database
A searchable database of horticultural and crop science information from forty-six U.S. and Canadian institutions. Maintained by the Ohio State University Department of Horticultural and Crop Science.

Plants Database
Taxonomic information from USDA, Natural Conservation Service, National Plant Data Center. See the following derived database Vascular Plants of New England by Prof. Ray Phillips, Colby College.

Poisonous Plants Informational Database
Listing of plant species by common and scientific names.  Also lists toxic agents in plants and animal species commonly affected. Maintained by Dan Brown, Cornell University.

RBG, Kew Databases
From the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Searchable databases of vascular plant families and genera, authors of plant names, and DNA databases. 

Recent literature on lichens.
From the American Bryological and Lichenological Society as published in The Bryologist, this searchable database contains over 24,000 references dated 1536 to present.  Search by author, journal name, and keyword from the title, keyword, or abstract fields.  Limit searches by material type: articles, books, chapters, or reviews.  Last updated 11/7/2006

Review of Plant Pathology - 1973-present
Sci Index SB599.R4. 1970-present
Index to plant pathology literature including information on diseases of crop and ornamental plants as well as forest trees.  Coverage includes taxonomy, molecular biology, control, genetics, and physiology. Review of Plant Pathology in print form can be searched by author and CAB descriptors. The Web version can be searched in a variety of ways including author, title and abstract keyword, and CAB descriptors. Indexes 1,000+ journals (see Serials cited in Review of Plant Pathology) , as well as books, reports, and conference proceedings. Updated monthly. 

Seed Information Database. release 7.1, 05/2008. Flynn, S., Turner, R.M., and Stuppy, W.H.
Search for seed information by family, genus, and species and limit by storage behavior. Information includes 1000 seed weight, oil content, protein content, and literature cited. Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database.
Key in a scientific name of a plant and retrieve information on its name, publications citing the name, lists of specimens and maps, and homonyms and infraspecific taxa.  Developed by the Missouri Botanical Garden

Web of Science. 1900-present
Science Citation Index
1965-2003.
Sci Index Q1.A1S36
Web of Science includes Science Citation Index from 1900-present.  Search by word in the title, keyword, and abstract.  Perform cited reference searches from 1900 to present. Limit by author affiliation and document type. 

The paper edition consists of three major sections: 1) Source Index - the primary place to search for authors' works published in a given time period; 2) Citation Index - a list of all references (alphabetical by author) cited by an author of a given paper which is listed in the Source Index; and 3) Permuterm Subject Index - access to citations listed in the Source Index by significant title word (Note: There is no subject indexing). Over 4,000 journals are indexed  (see the master journal list). 

Weed Abstracts - 1973-present
Sci Index SB611.W35. 1960-present
Index to weed control, biology, ecology literature in over 1,000 journals (see Serials cited in Weed Abstracts)  as well as reports, conference proceedings, and books. Weed Abstracts in print form can be searched by author and CAB descriptor. The Web version can be searched in a variety of ways including author, title and abstract keywords, and CAB descriptor. Both forms are updated monthly.

Botany Journals Author Instruction Pages

American Journal of Botany  

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Canadian Journal of Botany

Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology

Current Genetics
Gene

Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry

Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Journal of Phytopathology

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Mycologia

Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology

Phytopathology
Plant Cell
Plant and Soil

Plant Ecology

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Plant Systematics and Evolution

Rhodora

Systematic Botany

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Dictionaries, Glossaries, Encyclopedias

Armitage's garden encyclopedia [:] a color encyclopedia. Portland, OR: Timber Press. 368p.
Sci Ref SB422.A68 2004

'BABEL' - a Multi-Lingual database for the Vernacular Names of European Wild Plants. A list of paper copy (and some web based) reference works organized by country. Andrew N. Gagg. 

Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D., and Sharnoff, S. 2001. Lichens of North America. New Haven: Yale University Press. 795p.
Sci Ref QK586.5 .B76 2001

Brown, D. 2001. New encyclopedia of herbs & their uses. London: DK. 448p.
Sci Ref SB351.H5B6464 2001

Bryological Glossary (mosses). From the Missouri Botanical Garden 

Chemical dictionary of economic plants. 2001. Chichester, UK: John Wiley. 217p.
Sci Ref QK861.C45 2001

Common Names of Plant Diseases. Includes both fungal and viral diseases. From the American Phytopathological Society

D'Arcy, C.J., Eastburn, D.M., and Schumann, G.L. 2001. Illustrated glossary of plant pathology. The Plant Health Instructor.

A dictionary of plant sciences. 1998. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 508p.
Sci Ref QK9 .C67 1998

Dictionary of renewable resources. 1997. Weinheim: VCH. 320p. 
Sci Ref S584.4 .D53 1997
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Includes economic botany 

Dictionary of the fungi. Based on Ainsworth and Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi, 2001, 9th ed. CABI.

Directory of Herbs. Department of Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University. Detailed information including description, light and soil, pest and disease, and cultivation.

Dirr, M.A. 2002. Dirr's trees and shrubs for warm climates[:] An illustrated encyclopedia.  Portland, OR: Timber Press. 446p.
Sci Ref SB435.52.S86D57 2002

Duke, J.A. 1994. Amazonian ethnobotanical dictionary. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 215p. 
Sci Ref GN564.P4 D85 1994 

Elsevier's dictionary of fungi and fungal plant diseases. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. 400p.
Sci Ref QK603.3.E58 1998

Elsevier's dictionary of plant names and their origin. 2000. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. 1001p.
Sci Ref QK13 .E565 2000 

Encyclopedia of plant pathology. 2001. 2 vols. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 
Sci Ref SB728 .E53 2001

Harris, J.G. 1994. Plant identification terminology : an illustrated glossary. Spring Lake, UT: Spring Lake Publishing. 197p. 
Sci Ref QK9 .H37 1994 

Houtman, R. 2004. Variegated trees & shrubs[:] The illustrated encyclopedia. Portland, OR: Timber Press. 338p.
Sci Ref SB435.H825 2004

Hyam, R. 1995. Plants and their names: a concise dictionary. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press; London: Royal Botanic Garden. 545p. 
Sci Ref QK96 .P35 1995

Kirk, P.M., Cannon, P.F., David, J.C., and Stalpers, J.A. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi. 9th ed. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 655p.
Sci Ref QK600.35.A35 2001

Mabberley, D.J. 1997. The plant-book : a portable dictionary of the vascular plants utilizing Kubitzki's The families and genera of vascular plants (1990-), Cronquist's An integrated system of classification of flowering plants (1981), and current botanical literature, arranged largely on the principles of editions 1-6 (1896/97- 1931) of Willis's A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns. 2nd ed. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York: Cambridge University Press. 858p. 
Sci Ref QK11 .M29 1997 

Malcolm, B. and Malcolm, N. 2000. Mosses and other bryophytes - an illustrated glossary. Nelson, New Zealand: Micro-Optics Press. 220p.
Sci Ref QK537.M35 2000

Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 286p. Sci Ref SB45.5 .M85 1994.

On-line glossary of technical terms in plant pathology
Created by Dr. Phil A. Arneson, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University. Brief definitions, in many cases, accompanied by audio pronunciations.

Plant Dictionary - Photos or ornamental plants and pests The Ohio State University
Teaching resources for horticulture and crop science. 

Schlegel, R.H.J. 2003. Encyclopedic dictionary of plant breeding and related subjects. New York: Food Products Press. 563p.
Sci Ref SB 123.S32 2003

UCMP glossary, Volume 8: Botany.
Glossary of botanical terms from the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley.  

Ulloa, M. and Hanlin, R.T. 2000. Illustrated dictionary of mycology. St. Paul, MN: APS Press, 448p.
Sci Ref QK600.35.U4313 2000

Wielgorskaya, T. 1995. Dictionary of generic names of seed plants. New York: Columbia University Press. 570p. 
Sci Ref QK11 .W52 1995 

Herbaria

Harvard University Herbarium. Index of botanical specimens
Search over 117,000 records by scientific name, author, collector, and geographic location.  

Index herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. 8th ed. New York Botanical Garden.
Search by institutions and people.

MBLWHOI Library Digital Herbarium. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

U.S. National Herbarium Botanical Type Specimen Register. Search for ferns, flowering plants, mosses, hepatics, lichens, and algae. Over 88,000 records from the Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History 

University of Maine herbaria. Search the following 3 databases: Maine vascular plants, Mosses, and Lichens

Directories

1995 Plant conservation directory. 1995. [St. Louis, MO]: Center for Plant Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden. 90p.  
Sci Ref QK86.U6 P526 1995

International directory of botanical gardens V. 1990. 5th ed.  Koenigstein/Germany: Koeltz Scientific Books; Champaign, IL: Koeltz Scientific Books. 1021p. 
Sci Ref QK71 .I5 1990 E

 

Electronic Journals

Electronic Sites of Leading Botany, Plant Biology and Science Journals. From e-journals.org, World-Wide-Web Virtual Library.

Field and Identification Guides, Checklists,  Keys, Atlases

Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Index
Alphabetical list by common and scientific name.  Many of the descriptions are from:

Sievers, A.F. 1930. The Herb Hunters Guide American Medicinal Plants of Commercial Importance. Misc. Publ. No. 77. USDA, Washington DC. 

Atlas of the Flora of New England
Includes scientific and common names and distribution maps. An ongoing project by Ray Angelo and David E. Boufford.

Botanical Nomenclature
Search by common or scientific name. From the World Agroforestry Centre.  

Carnivorous Plant Photo Finder. Bob Ziemer, Humboldt State University

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps
Compiled by Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn, Earth Sciences and Map Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Cope, E.A. 2001. Muenscher's keys to woody plants[:]an expanded guide to native and cultivated species. Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing Associates. 337p.
Sci Ref QK115.C69 2001

Crow, G.E. and Hellquist, C.B. 2000.  Aquatic and wetland plants of northeastern North America. Volume 1: Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, and Angiosperms: Dicotyledons. Volume 2: Angiosperms: Monocotyledons. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Vol. 1: 480p., Vol. 2: 400p.
Sci Ref QK117.C84 2000

Cullen, J. 2005. Hardy rhododendron species[:] A guide to identification. Portland, OR: Timber Press. 494p.
Sci Ref QK495.E68C85 2005

Foster, S. 2000. A field guide to medicinal plants : eastern and central North America. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 411p. 
Sci Ref QK99.U6 F68 2000

Frohne, D. and Pfander, H.J. 2005. Poisonous plants - A handbook of doctors, pharmacists, toxicologists, biologists and veterinarians.  Portland, OR: Timber Press. 469p.
Sci Ref QK100.A1F7613 2005

Gardener's Dictionary. From the National Gardening Association, allows searching for the common or scientific names of over 10,000 plants. 

Grimm, W.C. 1993. The illustrated book of wildflowers and shrubs: the comprehensive field guide to more than 1,300 plants of Eastern North America. Rev. ed. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. 637p. 
ORO stacks QK112 .G75 1993

A guide to common marine organisms along the coast of Maine. 1998. Orono, ME : Maine/New Hampshire Sea Grant. 56p. 
ORO stacks QH104.5.N4 G8 1998
. (also in Special Collections)

Guide to poisonous and toxic plants. [1994] Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD: U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency, Entomological Science Division and Sanitation and Hygiene Program. 70p. 
ORO Gov Doc D 101.6/5:P 75 

Haines, A. 1998. Flora of Maine: a manual for identification of native and naturalized vascular plants of Maine. Bar Harbor, ME: V.F. Thomas Co. ORO Reserve Maine QK164 .H356 1998

Holmgren, N.H. 1998. Illustrated companion to Gleason and Cronquist's manual: illustrations of the vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden. 937p. 
Sci Ref QK117 .H65 1998.

Invasive plant atlas of New England (IPANE). 2003. Storrs, CT: Department of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Connecticut. Developed and maintained by J.L. Mehrhoff, J.A. Silander, jr., S.A. Leicht, and E. Mosher.
Search the catalogue by species and create a map of its distribution.

Knight, A.P. Guide to poisonous plants. Colorado State University.
Search by keyword or by common name.  Includes botanical name, habitat, distribution, photographs, description, and affected animals.

International Plant Names Index. Names and bibliographical information on all seed plants. collaboration between Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.

2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesIUCN - The World Conservation Union

Levine, C. 1995. A guide to wildflowers in winter: herbaceous plants of northeastern North America. New Haven: Yale University Press. 329p. 
ORO stacks QK117 .L48 1995
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Llamas, K.A. 2003. Tropical flowering plants[:] A guide to identification and cultivation. Portland, OR: Timber Press. 423p.
Sci Ref SB407.L59 2003

Magee, D.W. and Ahles, H.E. 1999. Flora of the Northeast : a manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1213 p.
Sci Ref  QK121 .M34 1999

Midwestern Wetland Flora. Field Office Guide to Plant Species. USGS - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Alphabetical list of 300 midwest wetland vascular plants.  Each record includes photography, drawing, range map, and brief field marks, description, and natural history information.

Names in current use for extant plant genera. NCU-3e. electronic version 1. edited by W. Greuter, B. Zimmer, and W.G. Berendsohn. International Association for Plant Taxonomy.

Newcomb, L. 1977. Newcomb's Wildflower guide : an ingenious new key system for quick, positive field identification of the wildflowers, flowering shrubs and vines of Northeastern and North Central North America. Boston : Little, Brown. 490p. 
Sci Ref QK118 .N42
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Northeast Wetland Flora. Field Office Guide to Plant Species. USGS - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Alphabetical list of 300 Northeastern wetland vascular plants.  Each record includes photography, drawing, range map, and brief field marks, description, and natural history information.

Plant Systematics Collection. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Access information by Phylum, Family, Genus, and common name.

Poisonous Plants Informational Database. Animal Science Department, Cornell University. 

Pope, R. 2005. Lichens above treeline[:] A hiker's guide to alpine zone lichens of the Northeastern United States. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. 69p.
Sci Ref QK587.P67 2005

Seidemann, J. 2005. World spice plants. Berlin: Springer. 591p.
Sci Ref SB305.S45 2005

Southern Wetland Flora. Field Office Guide to Plant Species. USGS - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Alphabetical list of 300 Southern wetland vascular plants.  Each record includes photography, drawing, range map, and brief field marks, description, and natural history information.

Species in parks. Flora and fauna databases. Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis and the National Park Service. Search database by National Park service site or species name.

Stubbendieck, J., Hatch, S.L., and Landholt, L.M. 2003. North American wildland plants [:] a field guide. Lincoln, NE; University of Nebraska. 501p.
Sci Ref SB193.3.N67S88 2003

A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. A joint project between Biota of North America and the Texax A&M Bioinformatics Working Group.

Threatened and endangered species system (TESS): Flowering, Non-Flowering Plants. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Tiner, R.W. 1987. A field guide to coastal wetland plants of the northeastern United States. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 285p. 
Sci Ref QK118 .T56 1987

Weed identification. Information Systems and Technology. Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research.
Key out weeds by type, leaf width, leaf arrangement, leaflets, seed leaf shape, leaf edge, leaf hair, flower color, flower petal appearance, petiole length, flower type, growth habits, ligule, and leaf cycle. Includes color images.

Western Wetland Flora. Field Office Guide to Plant Species. USGS - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Alphabetical list of 300 Northeastern wetland vascular plants.  Each record includes photography, drawing, range map, and brief field marks, description, and natural history information.

World Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification. Biology 211 - Flowering Plant Taxonomy: Principles and Methods of Biological Classification. Colby College. Professor Ray Phillips.


Handbooks and Manuals

Albers, F. and Meve, U. 2002. Illustrated handbook of succulent plants[:] Asclepiadaceae. Berlin: Springer. 318p.
Sci Ref QK495.A815I58 2002

Alien plant invaders of natural areas. Fact sheets. Plant Conservation Alliance, Alien Plant Working Group. Hosted by the National Park Service website.

Armitage, A.M. 2001. Armitage's manual of annuals, biennials, and half-hardy perennials. Portland, OR: Timber Press. 539p.
Sci Ref SB422.A66 2001

Botanical Society of America online image collection.
Search by broad subject categories or key word.

Burrows, G.E. and Tyrl, R.J. 2001. Toxic plants of North America. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. 1342p.
Sci Ref QK100.N6B87 2001

Bryan, J.E. 2002. Bulbs. Rev. Ed. Portland, OR: Timber Press. 524p.
Sci Ref SB425.B74 2002

Eggli, U. (ed.). 2001. Illustrated handbook of succulent plants[:] Monocotyledons. Berlin: Springer. 354p.
Sci Ref QK495.A14I45 2001

Fire Effects Information. USDA, Forest Service. Search by scientific or common name or tree, shrub, vine, fern etc., for information on fire ecology and effects, distribution, management, and botanical and ecological characteristics.

Flowering Plant Gateway
Detailed information on the four systems of flowering plant classification: Cronquist, Takhtajan, Thorne, and APG. Developed and maintained by Dr. Hugh D. Wilson, Texas A&M University

Frodin, D.G. 2001. 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. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1100p.
Sci Ref Z5351.F76 2001

Global land environments since the last interglacial
These ecosystem maps, examining vegetation patterns, are grouped by region.  Note that there is a "...still under development and as-yet unpublished" disclaimer.  This site, compiled from existing literature, contains a wealth of references on palaeovegetation.  Developed and maintained by Jonathan Adams, University of Adelaide.

Grass manual on the web
Click on a species name from a pull down menu and select one of the following to display: map, treatment, illustration, image, or notes.  Hosted by the University of Utah as part of the Manual of Grasses for North America project.

GRIN taxonomy for plants. World economic plants in GRIN
Taxonomic data for 37,000 taxa, 14,000 genera of plants, with a focus on economic plants. Maintained by the Agricultural Research Service, Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)

Gray, A. 1987. Gray's manual of botany : a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 8th ed. Portland, OR: Dioscorides Press. 1632p. 
Sci Ref QK117 .G75 1987 

Horst, R.K. (reviser) 2001. Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook. 6th ed. Boston: Kluwer. 1008p. 
Sci Ref SB 731 W47 2001

Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers (IPCN). Missouri Botanical Graden

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature 
Adopted by the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri, July-August 1999. 

Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Searchable list of scientific names of plants with a focus on North America. Developed and maintained by a partnership of agencies and organizations.

Invasivespecies.gov
A searchable database of government web sites on terrestrial, wetland, and aquatic plants. Maintained by the National Agricultural Library for the National Invasive Species Council.

Johnson, T. 1999. CRC ethnobotany desk reference. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 1211p.
Sci Ref  GN476.73 .J66 1999 

Jones, R.K. and Benson, D.M. (eds.) 2001. Diseases of woody ornamentals and trees in nurseries. St. Paul, MN: American Phytopathological Society. 482p.
ORO Stks SB761.D57 2001

Krieger, R. (ed.) 2001. Handbook of pesticide toxicology. V. 1: Principles, V2: Agents. 2nd ed. San Diego: Academic Press. 1908p.
Sci Ref RA 1270.P4H36 2001.

Liesner, R. (compiler). Field techniques used by Missouri Botanical Garden.

Noxious weeds in the US and Canada. Invaders Database System. Supported by USDA/ARS. Investigators from the University of Nebraska, USDA/ARS Western Region Research Center, and the University of Montana

Plant Disease Control
A to Z listing of plants with accompanying disease control information. Oregon State University Extension.

Plant Disease Facts. Cooperative Extension - The Pennsylvania State University. Includes information on the disease, symptoms, pathogen/cause, and management.  Maintained by Gary W. Moorman, Professor of Plant Pathology, Penn State University. 

Selected guidelines for ethnobotanical research : a field manual. 1996. Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden. 306p. 
ORO stacks GN476.73 .S453 1996

Slocum, P.D. 2005. Waterlilies and lotuses[:]Species, cultivars, and new hybrids. Portland, OR: Timber Press. 260p.
SB 413.L7S55 2005

Stearn, W.T. 1992. Botanical Latin: history, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary. 4th ed. Newton Abbot [England]: David & Charles. 546p. 
Sci Ref QK10 .S7 1992

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Prepared by the U.S. National Arboretum. See also Plant Hardiness Zones of Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

van Wyk, B-E. 2005. Food plants of the world[:] An illustrated guide. Portland, OR: Timber Press. 480p.
Sci Ref QK98.5.A1V36 2005

Watson, L. and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 and onwards. Grass genera of the world: Descriptions, illustration, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, photochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references. Version 18th August 1999. 

Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world[:] A reference guide to environmental weeds. Wallingford, UK: CAB Publishing. 548p.
Sci Ref SB613.5.W43 2003

Associations and Societies

American Bryological and Lichenological Society
American Phytopathological Society
American Society of Plant Biologists
Botanical Society of America
Canadian Botanical Association
Mycological Society of America
Society for Economic Botany

Virtual Libraries

Botany/Plant Biology WWW Virtual Library. Maintained by Scott Russell, University of Oklahoma

BUBL: Plant Biology

Internet Directory for Botany. Compiled and Maintained by a number of people in North American and Finland.

The Mycology.Net. Maintained by Botanische Staatssammlung München + others

The Plant Link Library.  Developed and maintained by the Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University.

University of California Museum of Paleontology Other Botanical Collection Catalogs.

WWW Virtual Library: Mycology. Maintained by Kathie Hodge, Cornell University.

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Jim Bird | Revised: 06/25/2008


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