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The Best Wildflower Sites on the Web
Montana Plant Life An excellent site with lots of great pictures and text, organized with several different methods of searching for plants.
Montana Natural Heritage Program Features plants in Montana that are rare, endangered or of special concern. Includes great photos and field guide information.
CalFlora Database An excellent database including photos of California wild flowers.
New Mexico Rare Plants.
Plant Life Of Santa Catalina Island Listed by family or by Genus, with good photos.
Botanic Sorting Machine A Netherlands Website organized by families. Still useful in North America.
Wildflowers of Ontario An excellent photo gallery.
Internet Directory for Botany An exhaustive list of botany sites on the internet.
Get Wildflowers has articles about wildflowers, plus an extensive directory of wildflower web sites.
The Society for Economic Botany publishes a newsletter about how plants are used by peoples around the world.
Database-Style Keys for Plant Identification
Database keys will one day greatly simplify plant identification, but most of these early versions are crude:
Wildflower Identification is a database driven identification program for 550 wildflowers in the northeastern and north-central parts of North America. Tree Identification
is a related identification program for 139 trees in the northeastern and north-central parts of North America.
The Key to World Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification
is a professionally developed key to plant families which works well, but may be difficult for amateurs to use.
MyWildflowers.com has an easy-to-use interface for Pennsylvania wildflowers.
The Pine Barrens Plant Identification Key is a primitive but interesting approach at a database-driven plant key.
The Key to the Gymnosperms of the Southeastern U.S. allows you to click on pictures to narrow down the choices until you find a match.
The Montana Plant Life Key uses a primitive database system for Montana wildflowers.
Although limited in scope, the Carolinian Canada Tree Identification Key has one of the better database systems.
The Best Weed Links on the Web
Managing Wholes is an excellent website on holistic management, including good information about invasive weeds, desertification, and healing the land.
Montana War on Weeds Many resources assembled by students of Whitehall High School.
Integrated Weed Control A Montana company offering a variety of products and services.
The Invaders Database System includes a list of 8,000 species of plants. You can query for their presence in any county of the five northwestern states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. I especially like this database because it describes whether each plant is native or exotic. Also, it has a really good search engine built in for finding other websites regarding the specific plants you are interested in.
The Exotic Plants of Rocky Mountain National Park has no pictures, but it does have useful information on the biology and control of many weeds.
BLM-Utah Weed Program This is a well-rounded weeds page with a mix of photos, information, prevention, and controls.
The Invasive Plants of Canada page lists only a few plants, but each one includes excellent information and photos.
The Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia has good pictures, but limited useful information.
Biological Control of Weeds documents efforts by the Canadian government to establish viable weed control with insects.
The Montana Noxious Weed Survey and Mapping System uses GPS technology to map weed infestations.
The USGS Invasive Species Home Page brings together a broad network of weed resources on the internet.
At the USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) scientists research restoration ecology and management of exotic rangeland plants and introduced vertebrates.
The Community Stewardship Exchange includes foundation sources for grant funds.
The The Nature Conservancy Wildland Invasive Species Resources.
The Montana Weed Control Association includes many good resources for weed awareness, identification and control.
Wild Edible Plants Sites on the Web
Wild Pantry Sells wild edible, medicinal and useful plants, mostly from southeastern states.
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