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© John Pickering, 2006-2009 Cercis canadensis	© Matt von Konrat, 2004 Frullania pycnantha, Liverwort
© John Pickering, 2006-2009 Dichelostemma capitatum, flowers	© John Pickering, 2006-2009 Polystichum acrostichoides
© John Pickering, 2006-2009 Sequoia, Redwood

Kinds

Bryophyta -- Bryophytes, Mosses, Hornworts, Nonvascular plants Dicotyledoneae -- Dicots, Dicotyledonae, Angiosperms, Flowering plants, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Vascular plants, Magnoliophyta, Magnoliopsida Gymnospermae -- Conifers, Cycads, Ginkgoes, Gnetophytes, Gymnosperms, Vascular plants, Gnetophyta, Fruitless seed plants Marchantiophyta -- Liverworts, Hepatics, Hepatophyta, Marchantiopsida, Jungermanniopsida, Nonvascular plants Monocotyledoneae -- Monocots, Monocotyledonae, Angiosperms, Flowering plants, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Vascular plants, Magnoliophyta, Liliopsida, Monocots, Liliopsida Pteridophyta -- Ferns, Horsetails, Clubmosses, Spikemosses, Quillworts, Whisk-ferns, Pteridophytes, Vascular plants, Equisetophyta, Psilotophyta, Lycophyta

Identification

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

Phylogeny

Taxonomic Category Scientific Name Common Name Kingdom Plantae Green plants Orders Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, Missouri Botanical Garden

Photographs

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 Harmful Plants Gallery, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey -- collection of photos and descriptions of plants harmful to humans 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

Geographic distribution

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

Links to other sites

Botanical Society of America -- includes educational images for instructional use CalFlora Database -- California plants Introduction to the Plantae -- information about the plant kingdom Index Nominum Genericorum -- database of genera, Smithsonian Institution International Plant Names Index -- database of plant names Tropicos Database, Missouri Botanical Garden Glossary of English terms Glossary of Spanish terms Complete Synonymy of Family names, Missouri Botanical Garden Glossaries of plant terms, Cloudbridge Virtual Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden Native Plants of South Texas, Texas A and M University Education Center, The Plant Health Instuctor -- American Phytopathological Society Tropical Plant Guides, The Field Museum Atlas of Seed Plants -- Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants -- University of South Florida Institute for Systematic Botany Index Herbariorum, New York Botanical Garden Herbaria of the southeastern United States Plants database -- United States Department of Agriculture vPlants -- a virtual herbarium of the Chicago region University of Oklahoma, Scott's Botanical Links Databases Pictoral resources

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.

Updated: 2009-11-22 22:50:58 gmt

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