Botany

This page was written by Christopher Spry

'Bibliorchidea', fee paying research portal on orchids.

Bioimages, photos of wild flowers and other wildlife

'Deep Green' program to classify plants genetically and to discover their evolutionary relationships.

'English Nature', which is responsible for the UKs national botanical heritage, has a general introduction to botany and its importance.

Flora locale. Protecting indigenous wild plants and plant communities from introduced species and varieties

Huntington Botanical Gardens, botanical 'time lines'.

'Habitat' UK wildlife and environment news portal, updated daily.

Internet Directory for Botany Alphabetical List, Lyon France.

Missouri Botanical Garden with links to many other sites.

Medicinal plants Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, New Mexico.

Orchid Guide, links to information on orchids.

Postcode Plant Database, Natural History Museum, London.

Wild flower weekends and courses: The Kingcombe Centre and the Field Studies Council.

Keble Martin's 'Concise British Flora in Colour' London: Ebury Press, 1965. 2nd Edition
Collins Pocket Guide: 'Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe' by Fitter, Fitter & Blamey. A comprehensive guide to wild trees, shrubs and flowering plants covering the whole of Britain and Ireland, plus Europe from the Arctic to the Alps. nearly 2000 species are described, and 1450 are illustrated in colour.
Clive Stace & Hilli Thompson 'New Flora of the British Isles' is the standard work on British plant identification but it is too large and heavy to be used in the field. Paperback - 1,165 pages (May 1997) Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521589355.
The Wild Flower Page.
Identify wild flowers in the U.K. by botanical keys, by Quentin Groom.
Field guide to plants of arable land
Information and colour photos of trees and shrubs
Web-based tree identification key

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