BIOL 4320

Field Botany Page

Phil Ganter

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Plant Id Book Websites

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Course Objectives

Links to lecture notes:
Links to lab notes: 
Note 1 Systematics & Taxonomy
Lab Note 1 Collecting plants 
Note 2 Plant Diversity I Divisions

Lab Note 2 Preserving specimens

Note 3 Plant Diversity II Families

Lab Note 3 Mounting specimens

Note 4 Plant Morphology

Lab Note 4 Identifying plants

 

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Links to Useful Websites
Systematic Sites:  
USDA Plant Database
   
Taxonomic Sites:
 
USDA classification of a known plant

  Texas Ag Extension's Wildflowers

 Iowa State Ag Ext. Trees Key

  Oregon State's Weed Id Page

Lots of Tree resources

Va. Tech's Weed Key

Virginia Tech's Tree Leaf & Twig key

  Illinois Council on Food and Ag. Research

Weed Key

Ohio State's Tree Id site

  Caroline Dean's Alabama Wildflowers

Alabama Trees

  Eric Haines' Wildflower Key

Wildflowers - good descriptions
Kansas Wildflowers & Grasses

 J. Hapeman's Wisconsin Orchids

Virginia Tech's Grasses

  Prairie Grasses

List of Keys on the WWWeb

Texas Grasses

 
UTenn site - good for confirmation
Wildflowers of Eastern North America
 
Plants - confirmation site, no key
Native Orchids of The United States
 
Wisconsin trees & shrubs
Noninvasive Plants in Southern Forests
 
Mississippi weeds
North Carolina wildflowers
 
Wetlands Monocots on-line key    
 

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Last updated on July 4, 2006