Useful Links

LINKS TO INTERESTING WEB SITES FOR GUIDES

(Many links came from a 2012 presentation by the Librarian - contact us to add your favourite sites)
British Columbia and Pacific Northwest USA

• Alpine Garden Club of BC
• E-Flora BC
• Invasive Species Council of British Columbia
• Master Gardeners
• Native Plant Society of British Columbia
• Paghat’s Garden
• Tree Book : Learning to Recognize Trees of British Columbia
• UBC Botanical Garden Botany Photo of the Day
• VDBG Tree of the Month

Canada

• Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System
• Heritage Perennials
• I Can Garden

USA

• Arnold Arboretum
• Center for Plant Conservation
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Monrovia Nursery Plant Catalog - Includes growing and historical information for thousands of plants
• Plant Information Online – University of Minnesota Libraries
• Silvics of North America – USDA

Great Britain

• Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
• Plantilus - Database for plants and plant history
• RHS Web Site - Includes plantfinder online, gardening advice etc.
• RHS Horticultural Database
• The Plant List

Special Interest
Bamboo:

• American Bamboo Society (ABS)
• Bamboo Garden
• International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)

Bulbs:

• Pacific Bulb Society Wiki
• Tulip Mania

Ferns:

• American Fern Society

Horticultural Therapy:

• American Horticultural Therapy Association

Botanical Dictionaries

• Botanical Dictionary (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Botanical Names for California Plants (excellent resource for stories; infomation is not strictly linked to California)
• Botany Word of the Day
• Dendrology (Tree) Names
• Plant and Flower Dictionary
• Plant Glossary
• Plant Names - Gledhill

Pronunciation Guides:

• Missouri Botanic Garden's Plant Finder provides audio pronunciation for each plant name.
• Horticulture Magazine pronunciation guide (no audio)
• Botanary, the Botanical Dictionary (no audio)

General Searches

• Google
• Google Images
• Wikipedia

Historical

• Complete work of Charles Darwin online
• Plant Explorers
• Plant Hunters in the Northeast
• Plant People Galore - short biographies of important people in the plant world
• Rare books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library

Literature
Index to American Botanical Literature

Medicine Wheel and First Nations

• Medicine Wheel in Native American Culture
• Native American Ethnobotany

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