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Kinds

Abelmoschus Acacia, Wattles Acer Actaea Actinidia Aesculus Agalinis Agastache Ageratina Allium, Onion Ambrosia Amorpha Amsonia Anemone Antirrhinum, Snapdragon Aralia, Devils walking stick Archaeplastida Artemisia Asclepias Asphodelus Atriplex Berberis Bidens Brassica Bryophyta, Bryophytes Caesalpinia, Nicker Callicarpa Caltha Camellia Campsis Cardamine Carex Carya, Hickory Cassia, Senna Castanea Castilleja Centaurea Cephalotaxus Chaenomeles Chamaecrista Chenopodium Chionanthus, Fringetree Chrysanthemum, Chrysanths Chrysopsis Chrysothamnus Cichorium Cinnamomum Cirsium Claytonia Clematis, Leather flower Cleome Coccothrinax Commelina Convallaria Conyza Coreopsis Corylopsis Corylus Coryopteris Crataegus, Hawthorn Crocus Cryptantha Cucumis Cucurbita Cymophyllus Dalea Datura Delphinium Dicentra Dicotyledoneae, Dicots Diervilla Dodecatheon Dyssodia Echinops Edgeworthia Elaeagnus, Olive Enemion Epimedium Eranthis Erigeron Eriogonum Erysimum Erythronium Eschscholzia Eupatorium Euthamia Eutrochium Fothergilla Gaillardia Galearis Galium Gaylussacia Gelsemium Geranium Gleditsia Glycyrrhiza, Licorice Gomphrena Gutierrezia Gymnospermae, Conifers Hedera, Ivy Helenium Helianthus Heliopsis Helleborus Helonias Heptacodium Hesperostipa, Needle and thread Heuchera Hibiscus, Rosemallow Hosta Hyacinthoides Hydrangea Hydrophyllum Hypericum Impatiens Iris Itea Kalmia Koelreuteria Krigia Kuhnia Lactuca Lagerstroemia Lamium Lantana Larix, Larch Laurus Lavandula Liatris Ligustrum Lilium Linum Lithospermum Lobelia Lycoris Lygodesmia Lythrum Maackia Magnolia Mahonia Maianthemum Marchantiophyta, Liverworts Marshallia Melilotus Microseris Monarda Monocotyledoneae, Monocots Myosotis Narcissus Nasturtium, Watercresses Nepeta Neviusia Nicotiana Nothocalais Nyssa Oenothera Opuntia Origanum Oxalis Oxydendrum Pachysandra Panicum, Panicgrass Passiflora Pastinaca Pedicularis Penstemon Pentas Persicaria Petunia Philadelphus Phlox Physalis Physallis Pieris Poliothyrsis Potentilla Prorsartes Prunus Pteridophyta, Ferns Pulsatilla Pycnanthemum Pyracantha Quercus Rhododendron Rosa Rubus Rudbeckia Salix Salvia Sanguinaria Sarcococca Sarracenia Scaevola, Naupaka Scilla Securigera Sedum Senecio Silphium Solidago Sophora Spider Spigelia Spiraea Stachyurus Stokesia Symphyotrichum Teucrium Thalictrum Tilia Tradescantia Trillium Triosteum Veratrum Verbascum Vernonia Veronicastrum Viburnum Vicia Vinca Viola Vitex, Chastetree Xerophyllum Zelkova Zephyranthes Zizia

Index

• Checklists:
• Families, North America
• Dicotyledoneae, Dicots
• Gymnospermae, Gymnosperms
• Monocotyledoneae, Monocots
• Plants for the People

Mosses & Liverworts Dicots Gymnosperms Monocots Ferns & Allies Click on image to go to that group.

Identification

• Trees
• North America
  • Georgia, Clarke County, Cedar Shoals High School
  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Madagascar
• Wildflowers
• North America
• Indiana
• Neotropical Plants

• Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, Missouri Botanical Garden

• Albion College -- images of vascular plants, primarily from eastern North America and the Caribbean basin
• Botanical Society of America, Online Image Collection -- stunning images from the Botanical Society of America
• California Native Plant Society -- photographs of native Californian plants
• Calphotos -- over 20,000 images of plants, primarily Californian species
• California State University -- photographs of plants, listed by both common name and family
• Carnivorous Plants -- photos of world carnivorous plants
• Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, University of Florida -- particulars and photographs
• Flora.cyberia -- plants of Europe and the Canary Islands
• University of South Florida, Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants -- database of vascular plants in Florida
• Landscape Plants, Oregon State University -- images, identification, and information on landscape plants
• Native Australian Plants, Australian National Botanic Gardens -- images of native Australian plants
• University of Basel, Switzerland, Botanical Image Database -- over 4,000 plant photographs
• Southern Illinois University, Land Plants Online -- images of nonangiosperm land plants
• Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery -- images sorted as grasses, forbs, or trees, shrubs, and woody vines
• United States Department of Agriculture -- images of selected U.S. plants
• Digital Flora of Texas, Texas A & M University -- vascular plant image library in alphabetical order by family
• Conneticut Botanical Society -- photos and information of Connecticut plants
• Vascular Plant Families, University of Hawaii -- photos of Hawaiian flora
• Plants of the New Jersey Pinelands, Georgian Court University -- photographs of species that inhabit the New Jersey Pine Barrens
• Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture -- University of Washington, images, information, and maps of plants of Washington
• New Zealand Plant Conservation Network -- search database for native New Zealand plants
• Wildflowers of Southern California, California Lutheran University -- photographs of southern Californian wildflowers
• Nature Conservancy Invasive Species Initiative -- images of invasive species
• Missouri State University -- photographs of flowering plants of the Ozarks and interior Highlands of North America
• Rangeland Ecosystems & Plants, University of Saskatchewan -- photographs of common plants in western Canada
• Delaware Wildflowers
• Missouri Plants
• Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Ferns, & Trees

• Checklists
  • Vascular Plants, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina & Tennessee
  • Flora, Oconee National Forest, Georgia

• Complete Synonymy of Family names, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Education Center, The Plant Health Instuctor -- American Phytopathological Society
• Glossaries of plant terms, Cloudbridge
• Introduction to the Plantae -- information about the plant kingdom
• Tropicos Database, Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Glossary of English terms
  • Glossary of Spanish terms
• US Forest Service -- information on trees and fire ecology
• Plant Ontology Consortium -- controlled vocabularies about plant structures, growth and development

• Alabama


• Trees of Alabama and the Southeast
  
• Wildflowers of Alabama
  


• Arizona


• Southwest Environmental Information Network Identification Keys
  


• California


• CalFlora Database -- California plants
  
• California Academy of Sciences
  
• California Native Plant Society
  
• CalPhotos:Plants
  
• California Department of Fish and Game Species Explorer
  


• Colorado


• Colorado Native Plants Society
  
• Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Ferns, & Trees
  


• Connecticut


• Connecticut Botanical Society
  


• Delaware


• Delaware Wildflowers
  


• Florida


• Atlas of Vascular Plants University of South Florida Institute for Systemic Botany
  
• Floridata
  


• Georgia


• The University of Georgia Herbarium
  
• Native Plants of the Carolinas and Georgia
  


• Illinois


• Illinois Wildflowers
  
• vPlants -- a virtual herbarium of the Chicago region
  


• Missouri


• Missouri Botanical Garden
  
• MissouriPlants.com
  
• Missouri Wildflower Guide
  


• Montana


• Montana Plant Life
  
• Montana Field Guide
  


• Nevada


• Nevada Natural Heritage Program
  


• New Mexico


• Southwest Environmental Information Network Identification Keys
  


• North Carolina


• Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats
  
• Plant fact sheets North Carolina State University Extension
  
• The University of North Carolina Herbarium
  
• Native Plants of the Carolinas and Georgia
  


• Oklahoma


• University of Oklahoma, Scott's Botanical Links
  
  • Databases
    
  • Pictoral resources
    


• Oregon


• Native Plant Society of Oregon
  
• Oregon Flora Project
  


• South Carolina


• Native Plants of the Carolinas and Georgia
  


• Texas


• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
  


• Wisconsin


• A Prairie Haven
  


• Wyoming


• USGS Northern Prarie Wildlife Research Center Wyoming Rare Plant Field Guide
  

By Region

• Northern Prarie
• USGS Northern Prarie Wildlife Research Center Western Wetland Flora Field Guide

• Southeast
• Tennessee Valley Authority, Detailed Plant Search

• Trees of Alabama and the Southeast

• Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States

• Southwest
• Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Ferns, & Trees

• Southwest Environmental Information Network Identification Keys

Continental U.S.

• Botanical Society of America -- includes educational

  images for instructional use

• Index Nominum Genericorum -- database of genera, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

• Plants database -- United States Department of Agriculture

• Virtual Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden

International

• The Plant List

• iPlant Collaborative -- Taxonomic Name Resolution Service

• Atlas of Seed Plants -- Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam

• International Plant Names Index -- database of plant names

• Monteverde Natural History -- Costa Rica

• Tropical Plant Guides, The Field Museum

• Angiosperm Phylogeny Website -- Families

• Flors Silvestres de Catalunya -- Catalonia

Acknowledgements This page written and compiled by Robert Magill and Kay Yatskievych of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, with Irina Kim John Pickering of the University of Georgia, Athens. We thank Denise Lim and Kamelia Dari for technical support in developing this page.

Associates · map
Family	Scientific name @ source (records)
Aceraceae	Acer rubrum @ I_GSJW (7)
Aquifoliaceae	Ilex glabra @ I_GSJW (16)
Arecaceae	Sabal minor @ I_GSJW (5)
	Serenoa repens @ I_GSJW (13)
Asteraceae	Packera tomentosa @ I_GSJW (15)
Clusiaceae	Hypericum galioides @ I_GSJW (15)
	Hypericum hypericoides @ I_GSJW (10)
Cyperaceae	Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani @ I_GSJW (7)
Cyrillaceae	Cliftonia monophylla @ I_GSJW (10)
Dennstaedtiaceae	Pteridium aquilinum @ I_GSJW (7)
Fagaceae	Quercus elliottii @ I_GSJW (6)
	Quercus incana @ I_GSJW (8)
	Quercus nigra @ I_GSJW (5)
	Quercus virginiana @ I_GSJW (8)
Lauraceae	Persea palustris @ I_GSJW (15)
Loganiaceae	Gelsemium sempervirens @ I_GSJW (13)
Magnoliaceae	Liriodendron tulipifera @ I_GSJW (12)
Myricaceae	Morella cerifera @ I_GSJW (13)
Oleaceae	Chionanthus virginicus @ I_GSJW (10)
Pinaceae	Pinus taeda @ I_GSJW (15)
Poaceae	Aristida beyrichiana @ I_GSJW (9)
Polygonaceae	Rumex hastatulus @ I_GSJW (9)
Polypodiaceae	Pleopeltis polypodioides @ I_GSJW (12)
Rosaceae	Rubus trivialis @ I_GSJW (20)
Smilacaceae	Smilax auriculata @ I_GSJW (17)
Verbenaceae	Glandularia pulchella @ I_GSJW (14)