Plants in the Yahoo! Directory

Be Nice to Nettles Week
Site promoting National Nettles week, 19th to 28th May 2004. Features a wealth of information on the humble, and stingy, nettle.
www.nettles.org.uk
Biology of Plants
Educational site covering photosynthesis, pollination, the parts of a plant, biomes, and seed growth. Includes imbedded video and diagrams, as well as links to songs, games, and lesson plans.
www.mbgnet.net/bioplants
Botany.com
Includes an encyclopedia of flowers and plants indexed by botanical and common name as well as links to associations and societies.
www.botany.com
Butterflies and Plants: Partners in Evolution
Discover how natural selection has shaped animals and plants together through their ancient and persistent dependencies, and defenses with one another in this Smithsonian exhibit.
butterflies.si.edu
Centres of Plant Diversity: The Americas
Part of a three-volume work that contains accounts of nearly 250 major sites for conservation of plant diversity worldwide.
www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd
Complete Guide to Growing Sunflowers
Provides descriptions of different species, cultivation information, and fun facts.
sunflower-guide.netfirms.com
Database of Herbaceous Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO2
Contributed by Michael H. Jones and Peter S. Curtis.
cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp073/ndp073.html
DavesGarden: Plants Database
PlantFiles is an identification database with over 150,000 plants. PlantFiles entries come with cultivation information and pictures supplied by member gardeners from around the world.
davesgarden.com/guides/pf
Enchanted Learning: Plants
Includes an illustrated plant dictionary for children, Arbor Day crafts, coloring pages, and quizzes related to plants and flowers.
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants
FhF Grasses
Dedicated to ornamental grasses.
www.grasses.co.uk
Floral Images
Showcases pictures of garden and wild flowers from the U.K. and Ireland.
www.floralimages.co.uk
Floridata 2.0
Offers a photographic encyclopedia of landscape plants and serves as an online plant and nature reference and a gardening marketplace.
www.floridata.com/index.cfm
Flowers in Ultraviolet
Gallery of color, ultraviolet, and infrared photographs capturing a variety of flowers spectral signatures. Images are arranged by plant Family.
www.naturfotograf.com/UV_flowers_list.html
Flowers.vg
Offers a large selection of flower and plant pictures and desktop wallpapers including roses, daisies, lilies, sunflowers, daffodils, tulips, venus fly traps, cacti, and others.
www.flowers.vg
Genera Zingiberarum
Classification and treatise of the Genera of the Superorder Zingiberanae, including Bananas, Heliconias, Gingers, and Relatives.
www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/zingib.html
Grass Genera of the World
Comprises an interactive identification and information retrieval system using the program Intkey, descriptions, illustrations, references, and other subsidiary material.
biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/grass
Great Plant Escape
Elementary program for 4th and 5th grade students designed to introduce them to plant science and increase their understanding of how foods grow.
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe
HortiPlex
Plant database containing images, gardening information, nomenclature data, and links.
hortiplex.gardenweb.com
Introduction to the Anthophyta
Information about the Anthophyta, or flowering plants, the largest group of plants. Includes links to more specific flowering plant groups.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/anthophyta/anthophyta.html
Introduction to the Plantae
Information on mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants with additional resources on paleobotany and plant systematics.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/plantae.html
INVADERS Database System
Comprehensive database of exotic plant names, distribution records, and regulatory information for the northwestern United States.
invader.dbs.umt.edu
Leaf Identification
Instructional unit from the Department of Horticulture at Penn State University. Includes information on identifying leaves by structure, shape, groupings, margins, and arrangement.
www.cas.psu.edu/docs/CASDEPT/Hort/LeafID
Medicinal and Poisonous Plant Databases
Offers links to articles and monographs on specific plants, medical herbalism, and pharmacognosy.
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/ibc99/poison
Methods in Plant Histology
Containing research techniques and methodology regarding plant histology, or the study of the tissue structure of plants.
www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Methods_in_Plant_Histology
NATURE: The Seedy Side of Plants
Discover the methods seeds use to travel, how they adapt to new environments, and how genetic engineering is being used to alter the natural seed production of plants.
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/plants
New Plant Page
Lists new and rare plant genera. Includes original cultivar checklists and horticultural monographs.
members.tripod.com/~Hatch_L/genera.html
Official State Flowers
Lists the state flowers (with color photographs) by their common and scientific names.
www.50states.com/flower.htm
Parasitic Plant Connection, The
Database of information about parasitic plants, including articles, images, terminology, specialists, and links to other resources.
www.parasiticplants.siu.edu
Penstemon
Information and pictures of this native North American plant genus.
www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~awolfe/Penstemon/Penstemon.html
Plant Image Gallery
Features a gallery of plants from all over the world.
www.plant-pictures.com
Plants at Work
National information campaign working in conjunction with the industry to inform professionals in the public about the numerous benefits of interior plants.
www.plantsatwork.org
PLANTS Database
USDA provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
plants.usda.gov
Plants for a Future
Collection of leaflets about edible and other useful plants, including plants for lighting, fiber, soaps, oils, and information on permaculture and perennial plants.
www.pfaf.org
Plants Magazine
Featuring new rare and unusual garden plants from around the world.
www.plants-magazine.com
Plants Nouveau
Provides information on new plants along with an introduction to novel and innovative selections the real plant people.
www.plantsnouveau.com
Plants-In-Motion [read review]
Watch movies of plants growing and learn interesting facts about plants of several types.
plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html
S-weeds
A poetic journey among the Swedish weeds consisting of daily haikus and photo entries of individual weeds.
www.s-weeds.net
Solanaceae
Provides characteristics, index of subfamilies, species of the month, and references about this plant family.
www.hvanbalken.com