Botany Selected Internet Sites
Directories
- Scott's Botanical Links - a comprehensive collection of botany links compiled by a professor at the University of Oklahoma.
- Virtual Library-Developmental Biology - a collection of links maintained by the Society for Developmental Biology. Includes indexes by subject, organisms, institutes, societies, research resources, and educational resources.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Botany - a web directory linking to professional associations, universities, governmental agencies and laboratories.
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Mycology - provides internet resources of interest to mycologists.
General Information
- Big List of Fact Sheets - morphological descriptions and photographs of gymnosperms and angiosperms at the species level.
- Colorado Wildflower Photo Album - hosted by the Colorado State University Herbarium. Browse photographs of flowers according to color and family name.
- E-PRINT Network: Biology and Medicine - searchable gateway to preprint servers maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Flora of North America - ongoing project to classify and describe all native and naturalized plants in Canada and the U.S.
- National Biological Information Infrastructure - a broad, collaborative program to provide access to data on the nation's biological resources.
- PlantFacts Search Engine - a compilation of fact sheets from universities and extension offices across the country.
Taxonomic and Genomic Databases
- Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) - contains a searchable database of genomic information for the model plant species Arabidopsis.
- GenBank - database of nucleotide and amino acid sequences from a variety of organisms hosted by the National Institute of Health.
- Plants Database - a database of information on plants that occur in the U.S. and its territories, including crops. Searchable by scientific or common name.
- Plant Genome Data Information Center - from the National Agricultural Library of the US Department of Agriculture.
- W3 Tropicos - a nomenclature database for vascular plants and bryophytes sponsored by the Missouri Botanical Garden.