Library Guides: Biology: Botany

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Global Plants
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JSTOR Plant Science is an online environment that brings together content, tools, and people interested in plant science. It provides access to foundational content vital to plant science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials, making them widely accessible to the plant science community as well as to researchers in other fields and to the public.

Biodiversity Heritage Library
More than 40,000 mostly 19th c. natural history books and journals
Flora of North America
Authoritative, up-to-date information on the names, relationships, characteristics, and distributions of the approximately 21,000 species of plants that grow outside of cultivation in North America north of Mexico.
Plants Database (USDA)
Focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information.
Tree Encyclopedia
Explore over 3500 pictures of over 450 tree species via large diagnostic photos, detailed botanical
and landscape information. Most of our featured trees reside at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois.
World Biodiversity Database
The WBD currently consists of 21 separate projects, each with its own interface and feature set. These projects cover a total of 25493 unique taxa, plus an additional 4149 synonyms. Use the search box below to search all projects for a scientific and/or common name.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility download datasets of global biodiversity data.