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Native Plants of Arizona. T. Ayers, T. Kolb, and E. Taylor. A great site with information on the native plants of Arizona. This site uses frames and a non-generic image map which makes navigation a bit tricky and overly complicated. You can access information by either a phylogenetic tree or through a map of Arizona's vegetation regions. Each family is treated individually and many representative species are figured and information for each given.

Common Plants of the Verde Valley and Sedona. Naturesongs. A great site on the plant life of central Arizona and the southwestern United States in general. Included are photographs and information about all plant groups from the region including wildflowers, shrubs, trees, and succulents. We particularly like its coverage of plants not normally seen in a site such as the shrubs of the southwest.

Arkansas Biodiversity - The Vascular Flora. University of Arkansas Herbarium. This is a great site on the vascular plants of Arkansas. It has Arkansas distribution maps by county for each species. Or you can get a complete list of species for the state or for each county.

CalFlora Database. Berkeley Digital Library Project. This site is an extensive searchable database of photographs of vascular plants of California. Clicking on the species name generates information for each species and further photographs. An absolutely killer site. Please go here.

CalFlora Database II. USDA Forest Service, University of California at Berkeley Digital Library, and the Univeristy of California at Davis Center for the Environment. This searchable database contains geographic and ecological information for 8363 California vascular plants. Additional information is given for rare species and taxa from the Sierra Nevadas. The information is given in the form of a table. You can also generate a distribution map by county from this data held by the Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group. A wonderful site.

Jepson Herbaria, University of California. The Jepson herbaria provides a number of resources and information, but perhaps the most interesting are distribution maps for the plant species of California.

Southern California Natural History. H. Towner. This site has information and photographs on the terrestrial plants of Southern California.

The Flora of Napa County, California. J. Callizo, J. Ruygt, and G. Muth. A list of the vascular plant species of Napa County California with information about each species. There is also a short section on the plant communities of Napa County.

Electronic Atlas of Siskiyou County Vegetation. Linda Freeman. This site has a map of the vegetation zones of Siskiyou County in California. Each zone has a short description of its physical and floral characteristics.

Catalina's Endemic Plants. Catalina Island Conservancy. This site has pictures and descriptions of the endemic plants (and some others) from Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California.

Colorado Rare Plant Field Guide. Colorado Natural Heritage Program. This site contains a field guide to 173 rare plant species in Colorado. The site includes pictures, information, and distribution maps for each of the species as well as general information about plant conservation in the state.

Native Plants of Montara Mountain. Chuck Kozak. A great tour of the vascular plants of Montara Mountain in the San Francisco Bay area. Included are photographs and information about their biology and where to find them in the Montara Mountain region.

The Vegetation of Lobo Point and North Wild Horse Mesa, Eastern Mohave Desert. Thomas Schweich. This site has a variety of information on the plant species and vegetation types found in this part of the Mohave Desert including a list of species of Lobo Point. This checklist also has a few photographs of some of the species.

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants. A searchable database of the vascular plant species of Florida. The site includes a list of the species with synonyms and citations. You'll also find Florida distribution maps for each species and, in many cases, photographs of the species.

Native Plants of South Florida. Doug Scofield. This site has pictures and some information on the native plants of southern Florida. It also has traditional herbal uses for some of the species and a special section on invasive exotics.

Field Guide. Dominant Flora of the Ground Cover in Pine Forests of the Appalachicola National Forest. Florida State University. The title says it all. For each species a bit of information is given.

The Tall Grass Prairie in Illinois. Kenneth Robertson. A nice site on the prairie plants of Illinois with photographs and information.

Annotated Checklist of the Flora of Minnesota. Anita F. Cholewa. A checklist of the vasculat plants of Minnesota.

The Missouri Flora Page. Missouri Department of Conservation. A collection of pages on different aspects of the Missouri flora including forbs, trees, prairie plants, wildflowers, rare and endangered plants, to name a few.

Plants of the New Jersey Pinelands (Pine Barrens). Michael Gross. A gallery of photographs of plants from the New Jersey Pine Barrens with general information on the Pine Barren regions.

New Mexico Rare Plants. New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council. Photographs and information about some of the rarer plants found in New Mexico along with a distribution map for the range of species within the state.

Metropolitan Plants - Metropolitan Plant Encyclopedia. Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A very nice site covering the plants of the metropolitan New York region with photographs and distribution maps by county. The site also has a glossary of terms and you can access the plant names through a table of contents or an alphabetical index.

Native Wildflowers of the North Dakota Grasslands. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. This site deal with the wildflower species of the North Dakota prairie. A photograph and information are given about each species. Species are arranged by family.

Natural History of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Museum. As you dig through this wonderfully informative site, you will find downloadable files in Adobe Acrobat format on the various plants groups and communities of Nova Scotia.

Pennsylvania Flora Project. Morris Arboretum. A searchable database of the plant species occurring in Pennsylvania. For each species there is information on its habitat, conservation state, or weed status.

Cyber Key to the Angiosperm Flora of Brazos. Monique Dubrule Reed. A dichotomous key to the angiosperm plant families of Brazos County, Texas. For a few families keys to genera and species are also present along with associated information.

Bioinformatics Working Group - Service Projects. This site has virtual tours of the plants found in three sites in Texas; Lick Creek Park, Flynn Bog System, and Moore's Hill Outcrop. Each site takes you to different types of habitats at the site, tells you a little bit about the habitat and some of the plants that occur there accompanied by photographs of the plants. Highly recommended.

El Paso Plants. EPBionet. Photographs of some plant species found in the El Paso region of western Texas.

Desert Plants of Utah. Utah State University Extension. This is an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) document.

Mountain Plants of Northeastern Utah. Utah State University Extension. This is an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) document.

Wisconsin Vascular Plants. Wisconsin State Herbarium. A very important and impressive flora for the state of Wisconsin. The site includes a complete checklist of the plant species found in the state along with synonyms. For a very large percentage of the species you'll also find photographs and distribution maps. You can search by common or scientific name and also by habitat. Highly recommended.

Wyoming Rare Plant Field Guide. W. Fertig, C. Refsdal, and J. Whipple. A guide to the 91 rarest plants in Wyoming. Each species is illustrated and has information and distribution maps. There is a master species list and individual lists arranged by each of Wyoming's National Forests as well as lists as compiled by other federal and state agencies.