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Botany

Databases
Major Directories of Links
Reference: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and More
Instructional Resources: Images, Multimedia and More
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Databases

To find journal and magazine articles, choose from the list of biology-related databases. To find books and journals, search MadCat.

• Biological Conservation Newsletter Bibliography Searchable directory from Smithsonian Institution's Botany and Natural History libraries has over 15,000 references to literature on conservation biology back to 1983.

• Flora of North America Authoritative, up-to-date information on the names, relationships, characteristics, and distributions of the approximately 21,000 species of plants that grow outside of cultivation in North America north of Mexico. Advanced search of the database.

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System "Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. "
  
  
• International Plant Names Index " A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names." From collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.
  
  
• Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest. Searchable by name and by characteristics such as size, light requirements, color, etc. with photos, pronunciation guides, culture and pruning techniques. From UW-Madison Horticulture's William Hoch & UWEX.
  
  
• Plant Pathology Online Has searchable Common Names of Plant Diseases from American Phytopathological Society.
• Plants Database (USDA) "Focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information."

• Plants of Horticulture (Ohio State), A searchable database of over 3,800 links to images and descriptions for hundreds of selected ornamental plants representing 60 families including: Annuals, Bulbs, Grasses, Groundcovers, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, and Vines.
  
  
• WebGarden (Ohio State) Includes searchable images, and Plant Facts database of Cooperative Extension and other university fact sheets, and over 200 video clips on basic gardening.
  
  
• Wisconsin State Herbarium Has Wisconsin Vascular Plant Species, Wisconsin Herbaria Plant Specimens, and Wisconsin Lichens databases and Atlas of the Wisconsin Prairie and Savanna Flora.
  
  
• W3VAST Bibliography VAST is the plant data base, VAScular TROPICOS, at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Contains literature based project information.

Major Directories of Links

• Botany (NBII: National Biological Information Infrastructure)
  Great teacher resources, history of botany, images, data and information in easy to find subtopics.

• The Internet Directory for Botany Over 4000 links in an alphabetical directory and a categorical directory. "An index to botanical information available on the Internet."

• WWW Virtual Library: Botany (Biosciences) "Information categorized first by provider, then by subject."

Reference: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and More

• Atlas of the Wisconsin Prairie and Savanna Flora DNR Bulletin 191 by Theodore S. Cochrane and Hugh H. Iltis.
• Orchids of Wisconsin By Jeffrey R. Hapeman.
• Botany Encyclopedia of Plants and Botanical Dictionary
• GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms
  
• Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (Botrts; Bob Riffle)
• Internet Directory for Biology: Checklists, Floras, Taxonomic Databases, Vegetation Huge list of annotated links.
• Plantfacts From Ohio State.
• Plant Trivia Timeline From Huntington Botanical Gardens.

Instructional Resources: Images, Multimedia and More

• Internet Directory for Biology: Images Huge list of annotated links.
  
  
• Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection Educational images for instructional use.
  
  
• Education Center of the American Phytopathological Society
  
  
• Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest Over 1800 color photos of 600 species.
  
  
• Orchids of Wisconsin By Jeffrey R. Hapeman.
  
  
• Plants in Motion Quicktime movies for nonprofit educational use
  by Roger P. Hangarter, Indiana University.
  
  
• UW-Madison Dept. of Botany Instructional Technology
  (BotIT) Includes Vegetation of WI, General Botany, Trees, Plant Diversity, and Fungi image databases and Botany course pages.
  
  
• Vascular Plant Image Gallery From Texas A & M.
  
  
• Vascular Plant Families Images free for instruction/education purposes from University of Hawaii

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• Prairie Restoration Campus Resources

Last modified February 27 , 2006
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with Steenbock Library, the UW Biotechnology Center, and the Center for Biology Education. Please send comments regarding this site to Barbara Lazewski.