Online Reference - Horticulture
Magazine, Journals, & Newspapers:
See the List
of all databases by Subject. Best Databases for Horticulture &
Gardening are in the general databases Proquest Research Library &
National Newspapers, EBSCO Academic Search Premier, Mas Ultra, Business
Source Premier, and Regional Business News. Journals are in Science
Direct. Search the individual online magazines/journals by
going to Electronic
Magazines, Journals and Newspapers by Title & Subject Browse by
subject - choose
Agriculture , Plant
Science, Botany,
Plant
Physiology, and search within the publications. Please follow the instructions
for off-campus if you are not on campus.
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Landscape, Trees
&Turf:
Purdue
Landscape Thesaurus- More than 200 links to documents from Purdue
University on Landscape Management. The information presented is
generally good, useful and practical.
http://bluestem.hort.purdue.edu/plant/...
Sustainable
Trees and Shrubs- An outstanding site from the University of Rhode
Island that promotes the use of trees and shrubs best adapted to the
proposed planting site. There is a very useful searchable database based
on plant or site characteristics.
http://131.128.91.217/maynard_susplants/html_spl2000/index.htm
Shigo on Tree
Systems This site is by the guru of tree pruning, Dr. Alex Shigo.
Everything you need or want to know about tree physiology as it relates
to pruning and pruning techniques. Essential information.
http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/SHIGO/
Green Media
On-line provides access to a number of trade periodicals published
by this company that relate to the landscape and turf industry.
Articles, product showcase, news updates, and classifieds. Search the
archives for past articles. http://www.greenmediaonline.com/default.asp
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Gardens & Arboreta:
Botanique. A portal to more than
2400 gardens, arboreta and nature sites in Canada and United States.
Searchable. http://www.botanique.com/
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Extension
Centers & Experiment Stations:
*NCSU extension services
online publications. Categories span the range from home making to
animal agriculture to commercial
horticulture.http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/resources/
*Clemson University extension service
publications. A good source of horticultural information. Pest and
diseases section has some nice articles. http://hgic.clemson.edu/
University of
Tennessee extension service publication. Publications under
commercial horticulture:horticulture, greenhouses, turf, weeds and
insect management More information under Home Garden, Lawn and
Landscape. http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/
Plant
Pest Handbook from University of Connecticut . A guide to diseases,
insects and other disorders affecting plants.
http://www.caes.state.ct.us/PlantPestHandbookFiles/pphIntroductory/pphfront.htm
Ohio State University
Extension Fact Sheet Yard & Garden . Basic information on a
plant, its uses, culture, diseases & pests, harvesting, species... from Ohio
State College of Food, Agriculture & Environmental Science
http://ohioline.osu.edu/lines/hygs.html
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Plant
Databases:
*The PLANTS Database provides
standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts,
hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. Extensive,
inclusive - more than you will ever want to know. An important part of
this are the plant range maps. Contains information about plant taxa,
both vascular and nonvascular, known to occur at native species with the
US. For each plant species it provides synonyms, distribution map
information, references, wetlands information, growth habit,
origin,perennial or annual status and family name.
http://plants.usda.gov/
Plant Viruses Online -
from the Univerasity of Idaho with an Index
to Virus Species http://image.fs.uidaho.edu/vide/
Dave’s Garden for
gardeners, by gardeners. A commercial site, but it has a large database
of plants and plant pictures. It is quite a useful site. Try the
“Botany” a dictionary of any and all botanical terms and the meaning of
plant names. http://davesgarden.com/pf/
Perry’s Perennial Pages
. A very good site for information on herbaceous perennials. Try the
“Photos and Files” section. http://www.uvm.edu/~pass/perry/
Plant physiology:
Plant Physiology Online Your own private course in plant physiology.
This is serious stuff. http://www.plantphys.net/index.php
Hardiness Zones &
Weather:
U.S. National
Arboretum USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map hyperlinked to all areas of
the United States. This site is by the US National Arboretum; you can
navigate into the web pages from this one.
Noaa's National Weather Service
gives updated weather information including a 7 day forecast for Baltimore,
MD.
Measurement/Unit Converter:
Digital Dutch unit
converter instantly converts measurement in one unit to any other
unit. Find our how many barleycorns are in one cable, or just convert
Fahrenheit to Celsius. http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/
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Plant Search Engines:Suggested Web Sites: *Denotes better site
*Ohio State University This
site is essentially a horticulture/agronomy search engine linked to some
53 databases. Click on WebGarden
on left for more links to - Plant
Facts, Plant Facts Search
Engine - dealing strictly with plants,
Images - featuring Ornamental plants, Turf, Plant Diseases, and
Insects, Videos-Collection
of 200 short gardening how-to videos.
Glossary - Illustrated definitions,
FAQ's - Illustrated answers to over 800 commonly asked Gardening
Questions.
*USDA Agriculture Research Service
http://www.ars.usda.gov/ For more detailed research reports - go to
left column put in keyword, select area and click go.
World
Economic Plants in GRIN http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxecon.pl
Information on the economic uses of plants.
Horticulture & Gardening Web sites (Information on Individual
plants)
*Plants For A Future
- Database Search http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/D_search.htm
Search
by Name, common name or family name. Search for an Edible, Medicinal or
Other Use. Search for plants native to a particular Area. Search for
plants which grow in a particular Habitat.
Floridata -
http://www.floridata.com/index.cfmUse Plant Encyclopedia on left.
Floridata is a resource for gardeners, students and homeowners. An
online photo reference of plants, covering categories such as trees,
shrubs, vines, cactus, water plants, annuals and many more. Use it to
identify beautiful plants for your home and garden, and then use it to
learn how to grow and maintain your favorite ones.
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Botany Directories ,Indexes & Dictionaries :
Glossary of Botanical
Terms - http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/ Contains very basic
definitions with hypertext links to other terms for more than "4,400
terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape
architecture and is regularly updated."
The Royal Horticultural Society -
http://www.rhs.org.uk/ Britain's leading gardening society offers a
plethora of gardening and botanical information, which includes Popular
Plants , scientific and research articles, plants catalogue and
photographs, and the plant forum (in "RHS News") which includes new
plant varieties. You may find information on genetic research, pests and
diseases, and the plant registration authority. Includes links to the
Illustrations and Glossary.
*WWW Virtual Library for
Gardening http://www.gardenweb.com/vl/ includes list of horticulture
web sites, cooperative extension services, gardens and other information
about plants.
Internet Directory for Botany -
http://www.botany.net/IDB/ only the Canadian link is left from the
International Internet Directory of Botany. With the pull down menu
links to 4,000 botany related web sites.Includes everything from weekend
gardeners to scholars.
Scott's botanical
links http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/ This site has a
large, diverse collection of botanical related links that are updated
almost continuously. It has a subject index with a huge list of Web
sites grouped by subject and a short description. This site is kept
current but does have an overwhelming amount of sites.
Biosciences
(Virtual Library) -http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/www-vl/ Index
to resources on Botany from the Virtual Library.
International Plant
Names Index - http://www.ipni.org/sample_searches.html The
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and
associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. IPNI is the
product of a collaboration between Royal
Botanical Gardens, Kew, The
Harvard University Herbaria , and the Australian
National Herbarium.
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Specialized Databases - some with only plant images
Botany Vascular
Plant Images - http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm According
to Native Vascular Plants, they are most of the familiar plants and
"have systems for transporting water and photosynthetic products and are
differentiated into stems, leaves, and roots." (Nonvascular plants are
"the algae, fungi, and mosses and lichens.") This site contains over
8800 plant images. Access is by family-level browsing (Latin names) or
by "a 'string query' option" similar to keyword searching.
*Introduction
to the Plant Kingdom -
http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/bl14apl/bl14apl.htm From the
University of West Indies. Click on the second box on left for detailded
information and diagrams of the Plant Kingdom.This site includes
introduction to the world of plants from an evolutionary perspective,
this site explores the evolution of plants beginning with how plants are
classified, ancient algae, the moving of plants to the land, mosses,
ferns, and the development of seeds, through to the diversity of
flowering plants. Full of many illustrations, diagrams, and photographs.
Also included are a glossary, bibliography, and related links.
Plants Phytochemical and
Ethnobotanical Databases - http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ The USDA
Agricultural Research Service hosts this collection of searchable
databases. Medicinal Plants of Native America has thousands of records
documenting medicinal uses of botanical species used by over 100 Native
American tribes. It is searchable by plant name, tribe, and use. The
Ethnobotany Database is international in scope and can be searched by
plant name, country, and medicinal use. The Phytochemical Database
includes pharmacological, toxic activity and assay information on
plants. The Food plant Database provides information on Native American
food plants. There are links to sites concerned with medicinal and
poisonous plants, nutrition, and an ethnobotanical dictionary.
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