External Links and Other Resources

Parks, Gardens, and Ecotourism

LSU Agricultural Center/College of Agriculture

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: Keys to Eriogonoideae (Polygonaceae); 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
Botanical Collection Catalogs: Extensive list compiled by the Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley
Botanical Garden at Berkeley: The University of California Botanical Garden is located in Strawberry Canyon above the Berkeley campus overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
California Botanical Society
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
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc. (CBHL)
Index Herbariorum: Addresses of institutions, email addresses of contact people, and official abbreviations. Hosted by New York Botanical Garden (NY)
Index Nominum Genericorum: Searchable index of plant generic names hosted by the Smithsonian
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
Mosses of Nevada On-line: Resource for information and ongoing research on the mosses of Nevada and adjacent areas of the Mojave and Great Basin deserts
New York Botanical Garden: Intermountain Flora --Catalog of selected vascular plant families from the Intermountain Region of western U.S. -- approx. 30,000 records; Invasive Plant Species of the United States -- Catalog of specimens of invasive plant species of the United States, from lists prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture. Approx. 800 records; North American Gymnosperms -- Completed catalog of herbarium specimens of gymnosperms from North America north of Mexico. Approx. 11,000 records; Vascular Plant Types Approx. 88,000 records; American Bryophyte Catalog Bryophyte type collections and non-type specimens of mosses, liverworts and hornworts from North America north of Mexico. Approx. 185,000 records.; Macrofungi of the New World
Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley: Main home page; featuring the Web Lift and the Subway to the Web
Mycological and Lichenological Collection Catalogs: Extensive list of sites pertaining to fungi and lichens compiled by the Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley
Oakland Museum of California
Phycological Collection Catalogs: Extensive list of sites pertaining to algae compiled by the Museum of Paleontology at 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
ENCYCLOWEEDIA, the California Department of Agriculture Weeds Page: pi.cdfa.ca.gov/weedinfo/
Tropical Flowers Forums: Get tropical and talk about the amazing flowers from the Tropics in our international forum.