Botany Research Guide

Online Encyclopedias

Flora of North America Authoritative information characteristics of the approximately 21,000 species of plants that grow outside of cultivation in North America.
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." The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium created this project.
Scirus is the most comprehensive science search engine on the Internet. Scirus searches 450 million science-specific Web pages that contain scientific and scholarly data or articles on the Web.

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