Plants Resources from Home Directory

All America Selections Winners - Showcases new varieties of flowers vegetables and plants for garden performance.

BackyardGardener.com: Garden Guides on Plants - Starting point for information on (types of) plants with summary information for many species and varieties.

Cal's Plant of the Week - Features a new plant every week with photo description and cultural information. Previously featured plants can be selected by botanical or common name. Focus is on plants for greenhouse culture.

Dave's Garden: PlantFiles - Database with over 80000 plants with cultivation information and pictures supplied by member gardeners.

DenverPlants.com - This resource for gardeners in the Denver metro area includes a sizeable database of plants with photos and cultural information.

Desert-Tropicals.com - Features searchable database of thousands of plants with basic information and often photos. Includes many succulents herbs and tropical fruit trees.

Dinosaur Garden Plants - Describes plants that lived during the age of the dinosaurs with brief infomation lists and links to other resources for plants of the mesozoic era.

Echo: Fruiting Trees Shrubs and Herbaceous Plants - Features cultural information uses handling tips and links for an extensive list of fruits and vegetables.

Findmeplants.com - Garden plant finder. Search by specifiying garden conditions and design requirements such as flower color size and growth habit. Search results include plant photo and summary information.

FloraFinder.com - Offers links to gardening websites arranged by plant type with a brief description of each site.

Floridata - Features hundreds of plant portraits each illustrated with several photos documenting the garden uses and cultural requirements of each species or cultivar.

Foliage Plants Database - Searchable database with basic information and some photographs of plants grown primarily for their foliage. Japanese and English.

Fruits and Vegetables - Extensive set of fact sheets and links from the University of Florida.

Garden Flowers - Discriptions of different types of flowers suitable for small gardens. Includes Phlox Nasturtium Lobelia Carnation Zinnia Alyssum Begonia and Dahlia.

Gardenline - Guide to growing and caring for houseplants vegetables trees and shrubs. Also features common pests and a miscellaneous section. From the University of Saskatchewan Extension.

Gardenweb: Name That Plant - Forum that allows users to upload images of plants that they are trying to identify.

Horticopia On-line Plant Information - Extensive directory of plants categorized by genus includes summary cultural information and small photograph for each plant.

HortiPlex - Horticultural database with over 100000 species and cultivars. Comments ratings and photos for many varieties supplied by members of the Gardenweb community.

Illinois' Best Plants - Chicago Botanic Garden provides a database of recommended plants for Illinois gardens from perennials to trees with photos and information on their culture and use.

New Jersey Weed Gallery - Database of weeds accessible by common and botanical names and by a thumbnail gallery. Summary information and photos are provided for each weed.

PlantBuzz - Gardener Mark McDonough presents horticultural musings and illustrated plant studies with particular emphasis on alliums and other bulbs for rock gardens.

Plants For A Future - Resource centre for rare and unusual plants particularly those which have edible medicinal or other uses. Offers a plant database and various articles on gardening perennials and habitats.

Plants National Database - Online USDA database of botanical information images and links on plants in the USA including crops and invasives. Search by name geographic distribution or other characteristics.

Plants Toxic to Animals - Resources about toxic plants from the Veterinary Medicine Library.

PlantZAfrica - Extensive information about plants native to southern Africa including hundreds of alphabetically arranged plant portraits by the National Botanical Institute of South Africa.

Shady Character - Mark shares photos and descriptions with personal experiences growing a large number of shade plants both perennials and woody specimens.

Shiraz Web Publications UK - Gardening resource site with an extensive plant directory featuring photos and cultural information.

The Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl - Pacific Northwest gardener presents essays for hundreds of species growing in her garden with personal notes history cultural information and photos for each.

Tiscali Gardening - A South African flower plant and gardening portal with searchable plant database photographs and information.

Translat - Translation program for botanical latin.

Virtual Plant Tags - Database of detailed descriptions and growing tips for thousands of plants including many not commonly grown. Profiles include cultural information assessment of landscape value and photos for most.

WeedAlert.com - Offers a weed listing for the United States regions primarily weeds occurring in lawns.