1. The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the oldest botanical institutions in the United States. It is a center for botanical research and science education.
http://www.mobot.org
2. Australian National Botanic Gardens provides a wealth of botanical and biological information about Australia.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/
3. California Flora Database contains geographic and ecological distribution information for 7,975 California vascular plant taxa, as well as additional habitat information for rare taxa and species of the Sierra Nevada.
http://www.calflora.org/
4. Carnivorous Plants Database includes over 3,000 entries giving an exhaustive nomenclatural synopsis of all carnivorous
plants.
http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi
5. Common Conifers of the Pacific Northwest provides information about the conifers of Oregon, including a dichotomous key for their identification.
http://www.oregonstate.edu/trees/
6. The New York Botanical Garden is situated on 250 acres in the Bronx and includes 27 outdoor gardens and plant collections, the nation’s most beautiful Victorian conservatory, and a 40-acre presettlement forest.
http://www.nybg.org/
7. GardenWeb is an information center for gardening enthusiasts.
http://www.gardenweb.com
8. United States Department of Agriculture contains news and information about the nation’s agricultural economy. There is an excellent section on the history of American agriculture from 1776–2000.
http://www.usda.gov/
9. Poisonous Plant Database is a set of working files of scientific information about the animal and human toxicology of vascular plants and herbal products of the world.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~djw/
10. The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is the nation’s oldest arboretum. The site includes a catalog of over 5,000 kinds of woody plants cultivated in the arboretum as well as educational and visitor information.
http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/
11. Tropical Rain Forest in Suriname provides a virtual tour of the rain forests of Suriname, complete with many fine photographs and sounds of the rain forest.
http:/www.ecocam.com/nature/Suriname.html
12. The multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching (MERLOT) includes many learning objects for plant biology and other disiplines.
http://www.merlot.org
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