External Links and Other Resources

Parks, Gardens, and Ecotourism

How to Prepare Herbarium Specimens for Deposit into LSU

How to cite the LSU Herbarium:
Louisiana State University Herbarium On-line Database. . Department of Biological Sciences. . http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/.

References to other useful sites:

Royal Botanical Garden, Kew
Vascular Plant Families and genera, Authors of Plant Names, DNA Database

Sites covering individual plant groups

Festuca of North America

Lemnaceae

Polygalaceae

American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS) at the University of Nebraska

Including information about the journals The Bryologist and Evansia

CalFlora

A versatile botanical resource that brings together a wide variety of state distributional data

California Native Plant Society

The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a statewide non-profit organization of amateurs and professionals with a common interest in California's native plants.
6th Inventory of Rare Plants

CalPhotos

Digital Library Project's collection of plant photos

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

The botany page of the California Academy

Harvard University Herbaria

Home page of the Harvard University herbaria

Index Herbariorum

Addresses of institutions, email addresses of contact people, and official abbreviations. Hosted by New York Botanical Garden (NY)

Intermountain Herbarium

Utah State University. Home of the Manual of Grasses for North America

Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature a database of references relevant to the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms and ferns.

Economic botany at Kew

These links to web resources on useful or poisonous plants are a joint venture between the Centre for Economic Botany, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the People and Plants project.

Land Plants Online

Presented by: Dan Nickrent and Karen Renzaglia of the Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri

Home page of the largest botanical garden and herbarium in the United States
Catalogue of New World Grasses
Search the Tropicos database

International Plant Names Project

A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants; collaboration of Harvard, Kew, and the Australian National Herbarium.

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

St. Louis Code

Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California

Home page of the major botanical garden and herbarium in Southern California

Sierra Plants Project

Photography by Steve Sharnoff

Plants Database

National Plant Data Center of the USDA

University of California, Davis Herbarium

Including links dealing with phytogeography

Checklist of Vegetation Maps

compiled by Claire Englander and Phil Hoehn

Tropical Flowers Forums

Get tropical and talk about the amazing flowers from the Tropics in our international forum.