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• - Responsible for the PLANTS database, which focuses on the vascular and non-vascular plants of the United States and its territories, including checklists, species abstracts, distribution data, crop information, plants symbols and plant growth data.
  
• - Glossary of Latin terms used in species names, from abbreviatulus to yunnanensis.
  
• - Information and photos of many species of caudiciforms - plants with thickened bases.
  
• - Southern Illinois University's guide to the taxonomic and evolutionary relations among terrestrial plants, with extensive links to other resources.
  
• - Introduction to the first land plants, known from fossils.
  
• - Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.
  
• - Small collection of plant imagery, from University of Georgia.
  
• - Images of hundreds of species of ferns, fern allies, and flowering plants, arranged by genus.
  
• - Full text index of the 1998 version of the Biota of North America Program's checklist.
  
• - Taxonomically arranged images and summaries of family characteristics.
  
• - References on California plant names, meanings and derivations from Latin and Greek roots, with biographical information on western botanists and collectors.
  
• - Brief introduction to the plant kingdom with links to further information.
  
• - Information about the research themes and training undertaken at the national herbarium of the Netherlands, with links to the three contributary universities.
  
• - Distribution maps of vascular plants of Hokkaido, Japan.
  
• - Online USDA database of information, images, and links on plants in the USA, including crops and invasives. Search by name, geographic distribution, or other characteristics.
  
• - Authoritative scientific information on 12,000 taxa in Western Australia, including maps, images, descriptions, specimen, and nomenclatural information. Requires registration.
  
• - Information about a wide range of edible or otherwise useful plants, sorted by names and potential uses.
  
• - Large collection of photographs, arranged by family.
  
• - Database of references to publications on the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns.
  
• - Searchable database all 8375 currently recognized vascular plants in California, including 20000 photographs.
  
• - Meanings of over 1000 root words used in scientific names of plants.
  
• - Continuing project with annotated checklists of pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and most monocots, with links to dot maps for each taxon.
  
• - International Association for Plant Taxonomy searchable database.
  
• - The herbarium and the associated paleobotanical collection have combined holdings of approximately 1/2 million specimens. Includes library search, catalog, and project information.
  
• - Searchable, illustrated collection.
  
• - Introduction to the Plant Kingdom with information on some of the divisions which make up this group.
  
• - A collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Smithsonian Institution, providing a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
  
• - A growing directory of the hierarchy, from Kingdom down to species, with common names included, and descriptive pages on selected species.
  
• - Information including keys, descriptions and illustrations of species available in Adobe pdf format by Shinners and Mahler.