WELCOME TO THE PLANT TAXONOMY HOME PAGE AT NORTHWEST COLLEGE

This is the home page of BOT 2050, The Taxonomy of Flowering Plants, at Northwest College, and is intended for use by students in the class. This page will provide you with information about the class and materials that may be used in conjunction with the class. It also will point to other information on the Internet that is pertinent to the field of plant taxonomy. Explore and discover how dynamic this field can be.

I. COURSE SYLLABUS

II. LECTURE NOTES

• Family Characteristics
• Family Pages designed by students
• Floral Terminology
• Plant Nomenclature
• Study Outline for Exam I with links to lecture enhancements.
• Study Outline for Exam II
• Study Outline for Exam III

III. BOTANICAL REFERENCES

• Botanical Glossaries of several types are provided by the Australian National Botanical Garden.
• DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a flexible method for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It has been adopted as a standard for data exchange.
• International Plant Names Index
• Herbals is a multimedia presentation on several of the most important ancient botanical herbals.
• Index Herbariorum, a guide to US herbaria.
• Index to Botanical Authors lists the proper abbreviation for every botanist who has published a new name.
• Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers provides the chromosome numbers of flowering plants.
• New York Botanical Garden Library provides searches of 110,000 titles of books and journals in the fields of botany, horticulture and landscape design.

• Australian National Botanical Gardens Herbarium
• California Academy of Science
• Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botany Museum.
• Flora of North America Project
• Harvard University Herbaria
• L.H. Bailey Hortorium
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• New York Botanical Garden
• Oregon State University Herbarium
• Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
• SMASCH Project (Botany)
• University of Florida Herbarium
• US National Herbarium
• The University of New Mexico Herbarium

• Angiosperm Family Descriptions are available from Colby College.
• Carnivorous Plants Database includes over 3000 entries giving an exhaustive nomenclatural synopsis of all Carnivorous Plants.
• Family descriptions and images from the University of Lethbridge.
• Vascular and Nonvascular Plant Families descriptions and images from the University of Hawaii.
• Lythraceae from Kent State University.
• Flowering Plant Families and Images from the University of Wisconsin. Descriptions and links to images.
• is a hypertext key to the orchids of Wisconsin, complete with photos.

• Vascular Plant Images from Albion College in Michigan.
• Images from the Plant Systematics Collection at the University of Wisconsin. Over 250 families represented, but the specific links are often slow or temporarily not working here, so be patient.
• Medicinal Herbs from the University of Washington.
• Plant Images List from the Internet Database of Botany.
• Plant Images from Steven J. Wolf, California State University, Stanislaus.
• Plant Images from the Australian National Botanic Garden.
• Plant Images from the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens.
• University of Connecticut Greenhouses provides a taxonomically arranged listing of plant images from their collection.
• Vascular Plant Image Gallery from Texas A & M University.
• Vascular and Nonvascular Plant Families descriptions and images from the University of Hawaii.
• Native wildflowers of the Northern Praires images and descriptions from the Northern Prairie Science Center.
• Digital Flora of Texas

VII. OTHER ON-LINE PLANT SYSTEMATICS COURSES

• Plant Taxonomy from Colby College is a clearly organized and well done page that can be very useful.
• Taxonomy of Flowering Plants from the University of Maryland. Lots of interesting links to essays and images are provided in the lecture notes here.
• Taxonomy of Flowering Plants at Texa A & M University. You will find good lecture notes and nicely illustrated lab material at this site. Worth a visit.
• Botany 3700 from California State University at Stanislaus.
• Plant Taxonomy at the University of Illinois.
• Introduction to Plant Systematics at Oregon State University.

IX. RESOURCES FOR PLANT SYSTEMATICS

• The Families of Angiosperms -- L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz
• Angiosperm family classifications

  Cronquist

  Dahlgren

  Thorne

• Comparison of Cronquist and Thorne systems
• Families and Genera in the Germplasm Research Information Network (USDA)
• International Plant Names Index
• Index Nominum Generoricum
• The International Plant Names Index is a comprehensive, database of the scientific names and associated bibliographical details of all vascular (seed) plants.
• Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera
• Botanical Authors Database
• Botanical Publications Database at Harvard
• Databases at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew -- including

  Vascular plant family and genera

  Authors of plant names

  DNA databases

• Index Herbariorum
• W³TROPICOS -- Nomenclatural database on tropical plants
• TRANSLAT -- a program to translate botanical latin
• U.S. Department of Agriculture PLANTS Project Home Page
• The University of New Mexico Herbarium maintains a good list of many taxonomically relevant directories for taxonomists, herbaria, jobs and such.

X. TAXONOMIC AND PHYLOGENETIC INFORMATION

• The Tree of Life
• Treebase: A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge
• Species 2000: Indexing the World's Known Species
• Interagency Taxonomic Information System
• Green Plant Phylogeny Coordination Group
• TRITON -- The Taxonomy Resource & Index to Organism Names

Much of the material on this page and on the Floral Terminology and Family characteristics pages come from the work of Dr. Steve Wolfe at California State University. Please visit the CSU Bioweb noted above to see more examples of his contributions to the electronic world of Botany.

Please respond to me regarding this page by clicking on my address on the home page of NWC Biology.