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Resources

Careers

  1. Careers with Plants Guide
    https://www.learnhowtobecome.org/career-resource-center/careers-with-plants/

  2. Outdoor Careers for Students
    https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/outdoor-degrees-and-careers/

  3. Resources for Students with Green Degrees
    https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/green-degrees/.

  4. Getting Involved in Environmental Law
    https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/environmental-law/

 

Online Quizzes

  1. UIPlants Online Quiz and Tutorial
    http://plants.nres.uiuc.edu/

  2. The World Book: The Seasons
    ttp://www2.worldbook.com/features/features.asp?feature=seasons&page=html/quizleaf.html&direct=yes

  3. The Science Room Botany Class: Howe High School, Howe, OK
    http://www.howe.k12.ok.us/%7Ejimaskew/botleaf.htm.
    Science Facilitator: Jim Askew, jimaskew@howe.k12.ok.us
    Howe Public Schools.

  4. Purves, W. K., Sadava, D., Orians, G. H., Heller, Craig. 2003. Life, The Science of
    Biology, Sixth Edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc. and W. H. Freeman and Company.
    http://www.thelifewire.com/index.htm

 

Definitions and Line Art

  1. Leaf Morphology: On-line Quiz
    http://www.howe.k12.ok.us/~jimaskew/botleaf.htm

  2. American Museum of Natural History: Biodiversity Counts
    http://www.amnh.org/learn/biodiversity_counts/
    More about the project > Resources > Plant Morphology (halfway down page)
    http://www.amnh.org/learn/biodiversity_counts/index.html

  3. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources: Bureau of Forestry
    http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/commontr/parts.htm

  4. Definitions and Line Drawings of Botanical Terminology
    http://www.shout.net/~jhilty/filesx/line_drawingx.htm

 

Line Art and Type Only

  1. Botany 201 Taxonomy of Flowering Plants Lecture Notes
    http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/201Manhart/Homepage.html

  2. Vegetative Morphology of Gree Plants
    http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/courses/BOT307/F_Organization/307notes02.html

 

Definitions and Photos

  1. Botany 105 at Humbolt University
    http://www.humboldt.edu/~dll2/bot105/alphalis.htm
    http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Edll2/bot105/leaf/leafmorp.htm

  2. Wah Yan Path Online: Leaf Morphology
    http://path.wyk.edu.hk/leaf/

  3. The Forestry OutReach Site (FORSite)
    http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/forsite/Idtree.htm

  4. Lab 2: Vegetative Characters (Last updated Jan. 8, 2003 by M. Reed)
    http://csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfplab/vegchar.htm

 

Definitions Only

  1. California Plant Names, Word Meanings and Name Derivations By Michael L. Charters
    http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/

  2. Frost’s Glossary of Botanical Terminology
    http://www.frostsgroup.com/glossary.htm

  3. The Orchid Lady’s Botanical Glossary
    http://www.orchidlady.com/glossary.html

  4. Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology: Glossary of Leaf Morphological Features
    http://www.bio.uu.nl/~palaeo/Education/leafmorphterm.html

  5. Illinois' Best Plants Glossary
    http://bestplants.chicago-botanic.org/glossary.htm

 

Identification Program (Dichotomous Keys)

  1. What Tree Is It?
    http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/products/tree/index.html

  2. BIOL 348, Plant Taxonomy by Dr. Lawrence A. Alice
    http://bioweb.wku.edu/faculty/Alice/348/Veg-morphology.ppt

 

Comprehensive Tree Identification Sites with Glossaries

  1. Plant Facts at OSU
    http://plantfacts.osu.edu/images.lasso

  2. UIPlants
    Kling, Gary J. 2002. UIPlants. University of Illinois, August 2003.
    http://woodyplants.nres.uiuc.edu/

  3. UConn Plant Database8/21/2003 10:19 AM
    http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/index.html

  4. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service: PLANTS Database
    http://plants.usda.gov/

    (Official Citation)
    USDA, NRCS. 2002. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

 

Miscellaneous

  1. Connecticut Botanical Society: Twig and Leaf Phyllotaxy
    http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/Newsletter/view/17

  2. Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
    http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/bibliographies/KR/KRHomeExt.html
    'Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2000). Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature.

    (Official Citation)
    Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/bibliographies/KR/KRHomeExt.html
    [accessed 18 August 1999; 14:30 GMT]*.

 

Educational Horticulture Sites

  1. Domtar Inc., in cooperation with the Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles, le Fonds de l'autoroute de l'information (FAI) and the ministère de l'Éducation du Québec
    http://www.domtar.com/arbre/english/

  2. Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    http://www.bbg.org/index.html

  3. Calpoly's SelecTree for California
    http://selectree.calpoly.edu/

  4. Connecticut Botanical Society
    http://ct-botanical-society.org/

  5. Chicago Botanic Garden
    http://bestplants.chicago-botanic.org/

  6. Gymnosperm Database
    http://www.conifers.org/

  7. NC State University- Plant Fact Sheets w/ image
    http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/SCIENTIFIC/scientific_index.html

  8. NeoPlants
    http://www.neoflora.com/neogardener/index.html

  9. Noble Foundation Tree, Shrub and Vine images
    http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/woodies.html

  10. Ohio State Plant Dictionary
    http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/plants.html

  11. Ohio State University Interactive Plant List
    http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hort/plantlist.html

  12. Oregon State University Landscape Plants
    http://osu.orst.edu/dept/ldplants/

  13. Ornamental Plants plus Version 3.0
    http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modzz/masterzz.html

  14. Plants For A Future - Species Database
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/D_search.html

  15. Plants to Grow
    http://www.plantstogrow.com/

  16. Perry's Perennial Pages
    http://www.uvm.edu/~pass/perry/

  17. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
    http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/web.dbs/

  18. Texas A & M University Picture Pages
    http://horticulture.tamu.edu:7998/ornamentals/search.html

  19. TLAN - Taxonomy of Landscape Plants
    http://members.tripod.com/%7EHatch_L/tlankey.html

  20. TreeGuide
    http://www.treeguide.com/treeguide/index.htm

  21. University of Alabama in Huntsville
    http://www.uah.edu/admin/Fac/grounds/choice.htm

  22. University of Delaware Botanic Garden
    http://bluehen.ags.udel.edu/ugarden.html

  23. University of Florida Tree Fact Sheets
    http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/index.htm

  24. University of Illinois Woody Plants
    http://woodyplants.nres.uiuc.edu/

  25. USDA National Plant Database Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    http://plants.usda.gov

 

 

©2005 Gary J. Kling and Laura L. Hayden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Notes about this tutorial.