From the website: "The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life>" Also, check out the McCarthy Library's Tip of the Week on this site.
Botanicus is a freely accessible portal whose mission is to improve access to scientific literature. Using a Web-based encyclopedia of digitized historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library, Botanicus has been digitizing materials from their library since 1995. The focus of their efforts have been primarily on beautifully illustrated volumes from their rare book collection.
The mission of the CNPS Vegetation Program is to develop and disseminate quantifiable definitions of all types of vegetation in California. These definitions will be used to promote science-based conservation at the natural community and ecosystem level throughout the State. Web site includes a manual of California vegetation.
From the Biodiversity Heritage Library, all four volumes of this source are available online. Find your plant family in the table of contents, then scroll to the page. Switch between volumes using the drop-down box next to the title.
This database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. A product of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
This working list of all known plant species aims to be a comprehensive list for species of vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).
From the website: "The mission of the Jepson Herbarium is to understand and conserve the California flora through systematic, floristic, and conservation biology studies and to communicate knowledge of the flora through publications and instructional programs."
From the Website: "A collection of resources originally organized to serve the needs of the students and instructors of the introductory course General Botany (Botany 130). While these resources target the needs of one specific course, others will find them useful for references and as a source of teaching materials."
