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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Botany and Plant Systematics
- General plant systematics and plant diversity
- Rutgers Databases (restricted access)
- Databases, indexes, web links
- Organizations, research centers, herbaria, botanical gardens and arboretums
- Reference databases, libraries
- Journals and newsletters
- Images of plants
- North American plants and flora
- New Jersey flora
- Ethnobotany and Economic Botany (cultivated, poisonous, medical, edible, or otherwise useful plants)
- Floras on-line
- Conservation, invasive and endangered species, and biodiversity
- Biogeography, paleobotany and paleoclimatology
- Specific plant groups
- Taxonomy, revisions, Latin, nomenclature, herbarium techniques
- Morphology, anatomy, palynology, embryology
- Plant distribution and maps
- Phylogenetic theory, cladistics, molecular systematics, GENBANK
- Systematics software
- Additional teaching resources - plant systematics and plant diversity
- Rutgers Related Resources
General plant systematics and plant diversity
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (Missouri Botanical Garden)
- classification, description of plant families, phylogeny
- Botany.com
- garden plant information, encyclopedia of common and Latin names, and terminology
- Digital Flowers (University of Illinois)
- major plant families
- Diversity of Life, Plants
- information and links, educational
- Glossary of Botany and Paleobotany (Enchanted Learning)
- Vascular Plant Systematics (University of North Carolina)
- morphology, classification
- UC Berkeley)
- TreeBase, a database of phylogenetic knowledge
- phylogenetic data submitted by authors, all organismal groups
- Tree of Life
- phylogenetic information, all organismal groups
- Plants Database (USDA, United States Department of Agriculture)
- W3Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden)
- large taxonomic database, includes images
- Worldwide Plant Family Identification (Colby College, ME)
- on-line, interactive key
Rutgers Databases (restricted access)
Databases, indexes, web links
- Biology Base web index, Botany
- Botanique
- links to botanical gardens
- Botany WWW sites (Botanical Society of America)
- Flowering Plant Gateway (Texas A & M University)
- classification web sites
- Index of Botanists (Harvard University herbaria)
- Index of Botanical Publications (Harvard University herbaria)
- Index Herbariorum
- on-line database of all herbaria, addresses, taxonomists and their specialties
- IPCN, Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers (Missouri Botanic Garden)
- ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- Internet Directory for Botany
- IPNI - International Plant Names Index
- Plant Systematics and Evolution links (Texas A & M University)
- Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
- ePIC - electronic Plant Information Centre
- The Kew Library Catalogue
- Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
- Vascular Plant Families and Genera (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
- database of angiosperm families and genera
- Scott's Botanical Links, S. Russell (University of Oklahoma)
- Virtual Library of Botany
- The database of Latin names, synonyms, authors, and first publications of species names
- WWW Botany Sites (Botanical Society of America)
Organisations, research centers, herbaria, botanical gardens, arboretums
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Botany department and herbarium
- PH herbarium
- ASPT, American Society for Plant Taxonomists
- list of members and their specialties
- Botanical Society of America
- Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (Texas A & M University)
- Botanical Societies (University of Maryland)
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Centre for international ethnomedicinal education and research (CIEER)
- News, Information
- ETI, Expert Center for Taxonomical Identification
- worldwide network, database of all species - World Biodiversity Database
- World Taxonomist Database
- list of specialists
- Harvard University Herbaria
- GH herbarium, databases of botanists and specimens
- Herb Research Foundation
- Links, Information
- IAPT, International Association for Plant Taxonomists
- Missouri Botanic Garden
- MO herbarium
- NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Genbank
- The New York Botanical Garden
- NY herbarium; library catalog, specimen data, images, databases, research, collections
- Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, Great Britain)
- (K herbarium), databases, collections, research
- Rutgers University, Chrysler Herbarium
- CHRB herbarium
- Smithsonian Institution, Department of Systematic Biology, Botany
- US herbarium
- Society of Ethnobiology
- Society for Economic Botany
- Willi Hennig Society
- cladistics, phylogenetic theory, links
Reference databases, libraries
Journals and newsletters
Rutgers Access Only
Unrestricted Access
Images of plants
North American plants and flora
New Jersey flora
Ethnobotany and Economic Botany (cultivated, poisonous, medical, edible, or otherwise useful plants))
Floras on-line
Conservation, invasive and endangered species, and biodiversity
Biogeography, paleobotany and paleoclimatology
Specific plant groups
Taxonomy, revisions, Latin, nomenclature, herbarium techniques
- Carl Linnaeus (UC Berkeley)
- about the man
- Concordance of Angiosperm Family Names (Reveal, J. University of Maryland)
- List synonyms and all published family and higher rank names (above generic rank), also includes the family classifications by Thorne, Cronqvist, Takhtajan, and Dahlgren
- Field Techniques used by Missouri Botanical Garden
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, 2000
- the official rules for botanical nomenclature
- IPNI, International Plant Names Index
- Database over latin names, synonyms, authors, and first publications of species names.
- Phylocode
- Preparation of Plant Specimens for Deposit as Herbarium Vouchers
- Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature (University of Maryland)
- Includes lists of family and other suprageneric names, accepted, rejected, synonyms.
Morphology, anatomy, palynology, embryology
Plant distribution and maps
Phylogenetic theory, cladistics, molecular systematics, GENBANK
Systematics software
- Autodecay (T. Eriksson)
- decay values on trees; Mac
- Clustal
- alignment of DNA sequences: PC or Mac
- Component (R. Page)
- co-evolution, biogeography
- Delta
- contructing keys, writing descriptions
- see also "Digital Taxonomy"
- MacClade (Maddison & Maddison)
- Tree building, mapping of characters, data matrices; Mac.
- NONA (P. Goloboff)
- parsimony analysis; PC
- PAUP (D. Swofford)
- parsimony analysis; PC or Mac
- PHYLIP (J. Felsenstein)
- phylogenetic analysis
- Sequin (NCBI)
- submission of DNA data to Genbank
- TreeMap (R. Page)
- comparing host and parasite trees
- TreeView (R. Page)
- viewing trees from Nexus files; PC or Mac
- TNT (P. Goloboff, S. Farris, & K. Nixon)
- parsimony analysis of large datasets; PC
- Winclada (K. Nixon)
- parsimony analysis [linked with NONA], tree building, mapping of characters, data matrices; PC
- Worldmap (British Museum of Natural History)
- analysis of biodiversity, mapping biodiversity; PC
Additional teaching resources -
plant systematics and plant diversity
Rutgers Related Resources
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