Links: Taxonomy, Image Databases, & Species Ecology
General/Vascular Plants (page 1)
Links were verified 11 Nov. 2008.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Canada: Biological Name Search
Provided by the Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility. Enter a scientific or vernacular name to view the taxonomic hierarchy (Family, Order..) for a species and its "Taxonomic Credibility Rating". It is a work in progress: see Some of the problems that CBIF will address.
- A list of vascular plant species in the Nova Scotia flora
A page on this website. The list was generated from Wild Species 2005: The General Status of Species in Canada using the General Status Search Tool. it's a place to start rather than an authoritative list.
- NatureServe Explorer
is "An online encyclopedia of plants, animals, and ecosystems of the U.S. and Canada.. an authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. Explorer includes particularly in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species." The NatureServe Conservation Status of a species is given for individual states and provinces
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
This website is maintained by Peter F. Stevens, Curator of the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Stevens is one of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group authors of the initial APG classification (1998) and its successor, APG II (2002). "At the web site.. I marry morphological, anatomical and chemical variation patterns with the most recent well-supported estimates of phylogeny. The variation is placed in a strictly hierarchical context as far as is possible. The site is updated every six months or so, and generally follows the Angiosperm Phylogeny Groups's consensus classification, albeit a little more elaborated as the site can be kept more current both in terms of phylogenetic hypotheses and morphology."
- International Plant Names Index
"The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium."
- Harvard University Herbarium Index of Botanical Specimens
Search for specimen records; images are availale for many of them. Databases of botanists and publications are also available.
- E.C. Smith Herbarium: Irving Biodiversity Collection.
"The E.C. Smith Herbarium contains over 200,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, and fungi. It is the largest herbarium in Atlantic Canada and the first Canadian herbarium to have digital database with scanned images of the collection." Use the Search Page to find general information on plants growing in Nova Scotia and images from the herbarium holdings.
- Digital Flora
of Newfoundland and Labrador
Vascular Plants
Hosted by Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Museum, 29 contributing photographers.
- Flora of North America
"Flora of North America North of Mexico is a synoptic floristic account of the plants of North America north of Mexico: the continental United States of America (including the Florida Keys and Aleutian Islands), Canada, Greenland, and St. Pierre and Miquelon. The flora is intended to serve both as a means of identifying plants within the region and as a systematic conspectus of the North American flora. "
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Plants Database
A U.S.D.A. Natural Resources Conservation Service web site. Enter a species name in the Name Search box to bring up a Plants Profile page with information on classification, photographs, line drawings and web resources.
- Fire Effects Information Service
This USDA Forest Service site contains detailed, referenced information for many vascular plant, moss and lichen species.
- The Linnean Society Collections Online
Over 14,000 digital images of plant specimens in the Linnaean Herbarium can be accessed online. Users can zoom in to specific sections of the specimens for close examination. Information under each image has been taken directly from the herbarium sheets.
- PlantSystematics.Org
An image database with species classified by families according to Cronquist (1981), Takhtajan (1997) and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2006).
- USDA - APHIS -- Concordance of Family Names
This University of Maryland.N.Y. Botanical Garden site lists family names according to APG-II, Cronquist, Dahlgren, Reveal, Stevens, Takhtajan, Thorne and gives the reference for particular family names.
- Synonymized Checklist of New England Tracheophytes
Tracheophytes are vascular plants (i,e, land plants not including mosses).
This list was prepared by Arthur Haines of the New England Wild Flower Society;it "presents those names that will tentatively be used in an upcoming flora of New England."
- PhyloCode
A formal set of rules governing phylogenetic nomenclature; Draft. Read the Preface to get a sense of what this is about, how it embodies and diverges from existing nomenclature systems.
