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Herbarium Websites of Interest
- MOBOT
- A strictly hierarchical account of all flowering plants families. Shows a somewhat conservative view of evolutionary relationships.
- USDA PLANTS Database
- A single source of information about plants of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, identification information, species abstracts, distributional maps, and crop information.
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
- This website lets you look up the authorities of any scientific plant name.
- TROPICOS
- This site provides access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files.
- Botanary
- A Dave's Garden index to the meanings of many botanical words and names.
- Harvard Univerity Herbaria's Botanical Authorities.
- This page lets you search for information about the namers of plants.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- Athenic Systems TreeGuide
- GRIN Taxonomy
- Index Herbariorum
- Herbaria of the World, compiled by the New York Botanical Garden.
- GBIF
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility: almost 200 herbaria joined together in a huge database
