BIOL 551 - Taxonomy of Flowering Plants

Library resources to help BIOL 551 students with their species accounts project.

Library Research Guide

B through I

The Biota of North America Program: North American Vascular Flora

Use its Taxonomic Data Center to find information about species, genera, or families. Its North American Plant Atlas provides maps at the state level and some at the county level.

Botanicus

Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.

Consortium of California Herbaria

A gateway to information from California vascular plant specimens that are housed in participant herbaria.

Flora of North America

Provides information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico. Thus far 11 of the 30 planned volumes are available.

iDigBio

Contains data and images for millions of biological specimens. 

Links From the Lecture J through Z

The KU Botany Vascular Plant Collection 

Contains nearly 50,000 images of specimens from Kansas. Use the advanced search option to narrow to results from Kansas.

Oklahoma Vascular Plants

The most comprehensive database of Oklahoma plant specimens currently available. 

PLANTS Database

The PLANTS Database, from the USDA, provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

SERNEC - Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections

Simultaneously search several collections of information about vascular plants.

Tree of Life Web Project

The project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history.

TROPICOS

A database of botanical information, including nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data.

WFO Plant List

An open-access, Web-based compendium of the world’s plant species.