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Books about Plants
GENERAL BOTANY
 General
Botany for Non-Science Majors. University of Maryland. The University
of Maryland presents a general introduction to botany with lecture notes
from the course. This is a great place to go to find out about the cell,
plant anatomy, meiosis and mitosis, photosynthesis, and much more.
PLANT FAMILIES AND CLASSIFICATIONS
Flowering
Plant Gateway. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). The Biota of
North America Program has developed an incredible resource on the vascular
plants of North America. This section of BONAP gives you access to several
alternative classifications of the vascular plants and a gateway to systematic
resources at the family level. If you choose "Select Family",
you will eventually be led to a list of web resources for any particular
plant family including checklists, catalogs, distribution maps, photographs,
and much more. Included among these resources are BONAP's own synonymical
checklists of the vascular plant species of North America. This site is
truly marvelous.
Plants Database.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. An incredible site based
primarily on the John Kartesz checklist of North American Plants. The
site contains a searchable database of the North American plant species
including photographs and distribution maps. You can also search the site
by U.S. states or common name. You'll also find fact sheets, phylogeny,
threatened and endangered species, weeds and invasive species, and wetland
species. Highly recommended.
Botany
330 - Bucknell University. Warren G. Abrahamson. This class syllabus
for a botany course at Bucknell University includes a classification of
plant families, keys to tree identification in Ohio, collecting and mounting
procedures, and a series of slides you can use to quiz yourself on plant
identification.
Introduction
to the Plant Kingdom. Sean Carrington. This is a wonderful introduction
to botany with a strong evolutionary emphasis. The lectures start with
"What is a Plant?" and discuss such topics as the current classification
of plants, conifers, ferns, bryophytes, the evolution of the major plants
groups, and much more. Highly recommended.
Classification
of Flowering Plants. K. Bremer and B. Bremer. This Swedish site at
Uppsala University presents a classification of flowering plants to the
family level.
Concordance
of Family Names. James Reveal. This site tabulates the different names
applied to higher plant categories in the form of a synonymic table with
a name and the "correct" name as used in five different current
plant classifications. This site is very useful if you get a confusing
name at the family level or above. You'll also find angiosperm classification
as proposed by Cronquist, Dahlgren, and Thorne.
Flora of North
America. Flora of North America Association. The Flora of North America
is a huge project from a large number of U.S. and Canadian Botanists to
compile of flora of the plants of North America. The project is projected
to result in 30 printed volumes as well as an online version of the flora.
The online version contains keys to families, genera, and species and
contains detailed information about each species as well as illustrations
and distribution maps. It is not clear from the site how complete the
project currently is, but major groups have been completed including the
gymnosperms and the ferns. A minor difficulty of the site is the large
file sizes of the illustrations which may cause problems for those will
slower connections to the web. An incredible resource and highly recommended.
The
Families of Flowering Plants. L. Watson and M. Dallwitz. This great
and massive site has descriptions of the plant families of the world with
a list of genera in each, distributions, morphology, and figures of representative
species.
Families
of Vascular Plants. Botany 307. University of Toronto. An introduction
to the families of fascular plants. This site also contains photographs
of selected vascular plants in Ontario.
Genus
of the Week. J. Forman and R. Kesseli. A fun site. Each week (more
or less) a different plant genus is presented with a short description,
some information, and links to sites with pictures and details on the
genus. A table of past genera is also kept.
Non-flowering
Plant Family Access Page. Gerald Carr. This site is a survey of the
non-flowering vascular plants of the world to the family level. Photographs
and information of representative species are given with a short introduction
to each family.
Plants National
Database. Natural Resources Conservation Service. This is an ambitious
project to provide a single source of standardized information about plants.
Presently the site is still in its early stages and the information is
spotty and somewhat cryptic. However there is a large gallery of plant
pictures arranged by group and by habitat.
Taxonomy
of Flowering Plants. Botany 201. Texas A&M University Herbarium.
This course syllabus has extensive information on plant morphology and
systematics. You can also find a list of plant families with information
and figures of their morphological characteristics. A map of the vegetative
zones of Texas is also included.
Taxonomy
of Flowering Plants. Biology 211. Raymond Phillips. This site is part
of a plant taxonomy course at Colby College and has a classification of
the angiosperms with short descriptions and photographs for each family.
Vascular
Plant Diversity, Bio 332. Keith Karoly. This site at Reed University
is a course syllabus but has several interesting features including a
slide show and quiz on vascular plant families and a set of links to web
resources on botany.
Vascular
Plant Family Access Page. Gerald Carr, University of Hawaii. A tremendous
site with photographs and information on all of the families of vascular
plants in the world.
Whittaker
Five Kingdom System Plant Classification. Francis Cardillo. A classification
of the plants with extensive information about each major division with
photographs of representative species and information on biology, life
histories, morphology, and more. An outstanding site.
World
Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification. Raymond B. Phillips. A
very interesting key to the families of flowering plants. You choose from
a long list of characters, checking a box if the character is present
in your specimen. When you've finished, press "Submit" and a
list of families with this characters appears.
Herb
Tracker. Soaring Bear. This site consists of a number of tables containing
links to a huge number of sites with pictures of plants, both wild and
domesticated. The layout is a bit confusing, but the shear volume of links
on this page makes it well worth looking at.
Index Herbariorum.
New York Botanical Garden. A searchable database of the the herbaria of
the world as well as the people who work in them.
Index to
American Botanical Literature Database. New York Botanical Garden.
A searchable database of botanical publications appearing since 1996.
PLANT ANATOMY
California
State University Biological Sciences Web Server. Steven Wolf. A key
to the different fruit types with figures of each.
GLOSSARIES OF TERMS
National
Christmas Tree Association. A glossary of terms used in botany.
Glossary
of Natural History Terms. Volume 8. Botanical Terms. Museum of Paleontology.
University of California at Berkeley. A glossary of terms in botany with
definitions and examples.
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