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Botanical Links
Hosted by Harvard University Herbaria.

Botany WWW Sites
Hosted by the Botanical Society of America.

Bubl Link:  Botany:
BUBL is an Internet-based information service designed for the UK higher education community, but offers a multitude of useful resources for those outside the UK.

Scott's Botanical Links:
Guide to botany education resources for the advanced high school (AP-biology) and college levels. Each site rated on a 4-star scale emphasizing educational value, completeness and scientific correctness.

WWW Virtual Library - Botany:
VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Pages are compiled by volunteers who have expertise in the topic.

Botanical Glossaries
A list of glossaries of botanical terms available on the Internet. Hosted by the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. 

Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae)
Database of nomenclature, types, synonymy, current taxonomy, and distribution for grasses occurring from Alaska and Greenland to Tierra del Fuego.

GrayLIT Network
World's most comprehensive portal to Federal gray literature. Hosted by the Department of Energy.

International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
Database of names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.

Plants Database (USDA)
Includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information.

Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library
The MBG's Rare Book Digitization Project is a searchable database of high-quality images. Contains digitized botanical texts from MBG's holdings, including botanical illustrations.

The Tree of Life Web Project
A web project produced by biologists from around the world. Taxonomic and identifying information about organisms, including drawings, photographs, references and related information..

Literature Cited from Shinners & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas

Mints of Texas

Plants of North Central Texas
Database of Scientific Names of Species and Subspecific Taxa (varieties and subspecies) From Shinners & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas.

UT Plant Resources Center - Databases
Includes Flora of Texas, Mexican Vascular Plant and UT Herbaria Type Databases.

Vascular Plants Endemic to Texas

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 
Includes the Native Plant Database and Image Gallery.

Yahoo Guide to Botanical Organizations 

Index Herbariorum
Hosted by the New York Botanical Garden.

UT Plant Resources Center
The largest herbarium in the southwestern United States, ranking fifth among U.S. university herbaria and twelfth across the nation.

Virtual Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden

Biology Indexes

Finding Journal Articles 101