Floristic & Plant Resources at the Library

This resource is a collaboration of plant organizations world wide and they aim to be an authoritative resource for listing and providing information about the worlds plants. This resource supersedes the Plant List.

TreeSearch is a repository of research conducted and published by members of the Forest Service. It includes bulletins, proceedings, and reports, in addition to peer-reviewed articles. This may a good source to search for grey literature.

This resource provides information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts and lichens in the US and territories. It features a search box on the left hand side of the page where you can type in a common name or scientific name. Below this box, are advanced searching options made available such as a rarity, duration, or state search to name a few.

This database provides nomenclature, spelling variations, first description published for vascular plants.

This database provides taxonomic data, global plant names, and images for hundreds of thousands of plant species across the globe.

Global Plants is a community-contributed database featuring more than two million high resolution plant type specimen images from the collections of over 300 herbaria around the world, including specimens contributed from The University of Texas at Austin. Related materials in the database include reference works and primary sources such as collector’s correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings and photographs. Global Plants was initially known as JSTOR Plant Science.