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Botany/Botanical Links
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The American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA)
- http://www.aabga.org/
The American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA)
was founded in 1940 by a small group of botanical garden directors.
Operated initially on a volunteer basis, AABGA acquired part-time professional
staff in 1972 and full-time staff in 1981.
AABGA's mission is to support North American botanical gardens and
arboreta in fulfilling their missions to study, display, and conserve
living plant collections for public benefit. Support for this mission
comes in many forms: a quarterly magazine, a monthly newsletter, special
publications, and programming at annual and regional meetings. To encourage
gardens to develop internship programs for young people, AABGA publishes
and distributes an annual listing of more than 500 internships.
Australian National Botanic Gardens -
http://155.187.10.12/anbg/
Growing, studying and promoting Australia's flora
Balogh's Flora of the World - http://balogh.com/florwld.html
Directory of sites from around the world.
Biota of North America Program (BONAP) of the North Carolina
Botanical Garden, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill -
http://www.bonap.org/
The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) of the North Carolina Botanical
Garden, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was founded
in 1969 by Dr. John Kartesz. The program's goal is to develop a unified
digital system for assessing the North American biota. The BONAP database
now includes data for all vascular plants and vertebrate species (native,
naturalized, and adventive) of North America, north of Mexico. Our goal
is to maintain the taxonomic, nomenclatural, and biogeographic data
for all members of the biota.
Botanical Data Overview hosted at the UC Berkeley Digital Library
Project -
http://www.calflora.org/calflora/botanical.html
Provides access to information about all 8375 currently recognized
vascular plants in California, including over 790,000 records of plant
observations and 20,000 photographs. Users may browse these collections
by scientific or common names, or search by name, location, and other
attributes. Information about plant distribution and individual occurrences
are presented textually and via interactive map capabilities. In most
cases the data is publicly available and downloadable.
Botanical Society of America - http://www.botany.org/
The Botanical Society of America exists to promote botany, the field
of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function,
diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions
within the biosphere. To accomplish this mission, the objectives of
The Society are to: sustain and provide improved formal and informal
education about plants; encourage basic plant research; provide expertise,
direction, and position statements concerning plants and ecosystems;
and foster communication within the professional botanical community,
and between botanists and the rest of humankind through publications,
meetings, and committees.
Denver Botanic Gardens -
http://www.botanicgardens.org/
Denver Botanic Gardens is one of the top botanic gardens in the country
and ranked as one of the top five cultural places to visit in Denver,
Colorado. 23 acres containing more than 30 gardens delight visitors
year-round. Denver Botanic Gardens is home to 15,000 plant species and
many gardens featuring plants from all over the world that grow well
in Colorado’s unique climate.
Global Diversity of Vascular Plants -
http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/biodiv/phytodiv.htm
World map of the species numbers of vascular plants.
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation A Research Division
of Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu
Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects
of plant science and serves the international scientific community through
research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and
maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts,
portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes
of information service. In this way they work to assist current research
in botanical systematics, history and biography, and to meet the reference
needs of biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers
and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect
of the North American flora.
International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) - Global
Plant Checklist - http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IOPI/GPC/
Managed by the International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI),
the Global Plant Checklist (GPC) is a cooperative international project
designed to help humanity manage the earth's biodiversity efficiently
and sustainably.
INTERNET DIRECTORY FOR BOTANY: ARBORETA AND BOTANICAL GARDENS -
http://www.botany.net/IDB/subject/botgard.html
A tremendous resource for all things botanical.
Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen - http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/library/kohler/welcome.html
Beautiful color reproductions of botanical illustration plates from
the classic herbal by Hermann A. Köhler, published in 1887
Missouri Botanical Garden -
http://www.mobot.org/welcome.text.html
The Missouri Botanical Garden was first opened to the public in 1859
by Henry Shaw. It is located on 79 acres in the City of St. Louis. The
Missouri Botanical Garden is home to over 30 different gardens, the
Climatron®, a world famous Botanical Research Center, an active
Education Division, and much more. Shaw Arboretum of the Missouri Botanical
Garden encompasses 2,500 acres of natural Ozark landscape and managed
plant collections. The Missouri Botanical Garden's mission is to discover
and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve
and enrich life.
National Plant Data Center (USDA) - http://npdc.usda.gov/npdc/
The National Plant Data Center (NPDC) focuses resources on the acquisition,
development, integration, quality control, dissemination and access
of plant information; the NPDC works with partners to incorporate new
plant technology into the agency's automated tools.
The NPDC is responsible for the PLANTS database, which focuses on the
vascular and nonvascular plants of the United States and its territories.
The PLANTS database includes checklists, species abstracts, distributional
data, crop information, plants symbols, plant growth data, references
and other plant information. PLANTS reduces costs by reducing the duplication
of efforts and by making information exchange possible across agencies
and disciplines.
New York Botanical Garden - http://www.nybg.org/
The New York Botanical Garden is an advocate for the plant kingdom.
The Garden pursues its mission through the wide-ranging research programs
of The International Plant Science Center; through its role as a museum
of living plant collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across
its National Historic Landmark site; and through its comprehensive education
programs in horticulture and plant science.
San Antonio Botanical Gardens - http://www.sabot.org/
Society for Economic Botany (SEB) - http://www.econbot.org/
The Society for Economic Botany (SEB) was established in 1959 to foster
and encourage scientific research, education, and related activities
on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship
between plants and people, and to make the results of such research
available to the scientific community and the general public through
meetings and publications.
South Carolina Botanical Garden - http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/scbg/
The South Carolina Botanical Garden was begun in 1957 as a small camellia
collection on a reclaimed landfill site. Today the Garden is a 270-acre
public garden offering a diversity of cultivated and natural landscapes
and year-round public programming.
The mission of the South Carolina Botanical Garden is to serve as an
interdisciplinary public garden whose focus is research and education
in the areas of botanical and cultural conservation and the environment.
University of Connecticut Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Conservatory
& Gardens - http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu
Welcome to the EEB Greenhouse Plant Collections. Our facilities house
an extensive teaching and research collection of plant materials from
all over the world.
University of Washington Medicinal Herb Garden - http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/uwmhg/index.html
Located on the campus the University of Washington in Seattle, the
Medicinal Herb Garden is a resource for herbalists, medics, and botanists
of all levels.
University of Wisconsin, Madison Botanical Garden - http://www.wisc.edu/botany/Garden/index.html
The University of Wisconsin - Madison's Botanical Garden is maintained
by the Department of Botany under the supervision of Dr. Mohammad Mehdi
Fayyaz. The garden is an important resource for both teaching and research
and serves as reference for the different families, genera and species
represented. It also provides an area for leisure where examples of
plants from around the world demonstrate the diversity and beauty of
the plant kingdom.
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