Acta Botanica Mexicana
It unveils original and unpublished works in all areas of botany, including floristics, taxonomy, new taxa for science, ecology, ethnobotany, paleontology, evolution, conservation, etc. It is aimed at Mexican and foreign botanists who provide information in these areas of knowledge, particularly with native plants of the American continent.
Acta Palaeobotanica
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to organizations and individual authors. It publishes journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications – for academics and professionals.
Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group
The Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group (ABERG) consists of over 40 senior scientists and over 20 Peruvian biologists and undergraduates. Together, ABERG has generated a comprehensive series of research projects on biodiversity distribution and ecosystem function in the tropical Andes.
Aob Plants
It is a non-profit, sound science, open access journal for plant-focused research.
Árido-Ciencia
This journal is intended for scientific dissemination where all researchers from different countries can carry out research related to the theme of Biosciences and Ethnodiversity with emphasis on arid and semi-arid zones of the world.
Australian Journal of Botany
An international journal for publication of original research in plant science.
Australian Systematic Botany
It publishes papers and critical reviews that aim to advance systematic botany and related aspects of biogeography and evolution of all plant groups.
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants
Includes 2553 species of plants (trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, grasses, palms, pandans, mistletoes) of northern Australian rainforests from Broome in Western Australia to Townsville in Queensland. Over 11000 colour images of flowers, fruit, leaves, seedlings and leaf x-rays.
Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France
La Bibliothèque de l'Institut est une bibliothèque patrimoniale et une bibliothèque de recherche de dernier recours. Pour y accéder, il convient de disposer de la recommandation d'au moins un membre de l'Institut, appartenant à l'une des cinq académies qui composent cette institution.
Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ)
It is a community peer-reviewed, open-access, comprehensive online platform, designed to accelerate publishing, dissemination and sharing of biodiversity-related data of any kind.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
A consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”
BioMed Central
It is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.
BioOne
It is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Boletim de Botanica da Universidade de Sao Paulo
This journal is intended for the publication of original scientific research in any field of Botany, carried out by Brazilian or foreign researchers.
Bonplandia
Bonplandia es una publicación del Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste (UNNE-CONICET, Corrientes, Argentina) fundada en el año 1960. Es una revista abierta a artículos originales sobre taxonomía, anatomía, morfología, fisiología, genética, citogenética, biotecnología aplicada y genómica funcional, etnobotánica, palinología, florística, ecología y otras áreas de la biología vegetal, referidos a todos los grupos de plantas y organismos relacionados (cianobacterias, algas, hongos y líquenes), tanto actuales como fósiles.
Botanical Sciences
An international scientific journal that publishes original and unpublished articles in plant biology, including ecology and evolution, structure and function, systematics and taxonomy, among other areas of botany.
Botanical Studies
It is sponsored by the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, and is open for articles on all aspects of botany. The scope of the journal extends from plant molecular biology through classical botany to taxonomy and ecology.
Botanical Word Meanings and Name Derivations
The author has done a great job in compiling this list of California plant name meanings, and the definitions can be applied to plant names worldwide.
BrassiBase
A developing online-accessible knowledge and database system of cross-referenced information and resources on Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) taxonomy, systematics and evolution, including chromosome numbers, traits and characters, germplasm resources, and accurate enumeration of all species, genera and tribes.
Cambridge University Press
In line with the commitment of Cambridge University Press to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide, the Press currently publishes over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. Containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas, Cambridge journals are accessible worldwide in print and online.
Canotia
An Arizona journal publishing botanical and mycological papers.
Catalogue of Life
The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth.
Cell Press
It publishes over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies.
Checklist: the Journal of Biodiversity Data
Check List is a peer-reviewed online journal, devoted to publishing biodiversity data related to species’ geographic distributions. Thus, our primary mission is to fill the so-called Wallacean shortfall (Lomolino 2004) and to improve our knowledge of how life is distributed on the planet in order to better preserve it.
Chileflora.com
Web site dedicated to the Chilean flora. Its main sections and content are: on-line herbarium of live Chilean plants with 1109 species, 9300+ photos, and many search indexes, articles of general interest on the Chilean flora, habitats of the Chilean plants, new findings by Chileflora and list of seeds (230 species) and seedlings (120 species) available for sale. The site is maintained currently in three languages (English, Spanish, German).
CJB (Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva)
It contains plants and fungi from the entire world, but in particular, those of the Mediterranean, the Near and Far East, South America and Europe.
Concordance of Angiosperm Family Names
A quick searchable database for family names and their alternative uses by Cronquist, Dahlgren, Reveal, Takhtajan and Thorne. Prepared by James Reveal.
Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria
It was created in 2007 to bring together regional herbaria and provide an online portal to the wealth of existing and emerging information about the flora of Pacific Northwest North America.
Cooperative Taxonomic Resource for American Myrtaceae (CoTRAM)
The objective of this website is to bring together databases of authority-identified specimens and images with software tools that allow one to make geographically restricted checklists and maps.
Darwiniana, nueva serie
It is a biannual publication open to original (primary) scientific papers and reviews on botanical topics in a wide spectrum of areas, with the exception of articles of an agronomic and strictly applied nature (direct transfer).
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
Dumortiera
The botanical journal Dumortiera publishes articles - in English, Dutch or French - on the flora and vegetation of Belgium and adjacent areas: vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, algae and fungi.
e-journals.org
These are links to journals in which articles concerning plant biology are published. Contains links to over 700 journals!
EDIT (the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy)
A network of 28 major taxonomic institutions, devoted to making more powerful, more reliable and more applicable taxonomy.
Egyptian Journal of Botany
It is the official publication of the Egyptian Botanical Society and has been published by the Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology since 1960. The journal is dedicated to publishing high-quality original research, short communications and review articles in all fields of botany, plant sciences, and microbiology.
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
EOL’s objective is to offer a webpage for every known species of life on Earth. Initiatives such as EOL depend on resources such as The Plant List in order to relate names to species so that all information about a particular species can more easily be obtained and synthesized.
Expeditions and Discoveries
The new collection offers important—often unique—historical resources for students of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, geography, geology, medicine, oceanography, and zoology. The collection includes digitized copies of more than 250,000 pages from 700 books and serials, as well as 50,000 pages from Harvard's manuscript collections, more than 1,200 photographs, 200 maps, 21 atlases, and numerous drawings and prints.
Field Museum of Natural History - Botany
Check out what F botanists are doing on this well-designed and easy to navigate site.
Flora Mediterranea
This peer-reviewed journal, published annually by the Foundation pro Herbario Mediterraneo on behalf of OPTIMA, includes papers dealing with the study of biogeography, floristics and systematic botany in the Mediterranean area.
Forest Ecosystems
It is an international Open Access journal publishing scientific communications from any discipline that can provide interesting contributions about the structure and dynamics of "natural" and "domesticated" forest ecosystems, and their services to people.
Global Compositae Checklist
This is an integrated database of nomenclatural and taxonomic information for the second largest vascular plant family in the world.
Gorteria - Dutch Botanical Archives
It is a journal dedicated to research on the wild Flora of the Netherlands. It is aimed at floristic researchers, ecologists, vegetation specialists and systematics.
Harvard University Herbaria Databases
The Harvard University Herbaria, with more than 5 million specimens, are one of the 10 largest Herbaria in the world in number of specimens, and along with the library, form the world's largest university owned herbarium.
Herbarium of higher plants of Komarov Botanical Institute RAS - Herbarium LE
It is free access datatabase. It includes images of herbarium specimens, appropriate data of herbarium label, supplementary photographs and other relevant data.
Hortax (The Horticultural Taxonomy Group)
Hortax, formed in 1988, is a small committee of plant taxonomists and horticulturists with a professional interest in the classification and nomenclature of cultivated plants. This website provides a fund of information for the non-specialist enthusiast wishing to learn more about how plants are named, as well as a forum where questions of cultivated plant taxonomy can be aired and addressed.
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Part of Carnegie Mellon University, the Division documents the history of botany by acquiring and maintaining authoritive collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files. Sit back and surf.
Index Herbariorum
Part 1: The Herbaria of the World (Eighth Edition). Locate the mailing addresses and websites for all recognized herbaria. An invaluable resource.
Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum)
Searchable database of generic names for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)
It promotes all aspects of botanical systematics and its significance to the understanding and value of biodiversity.
International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation (IJBC)
This site is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. IJBC publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas relating to sustainable development, human dependence on biodiversity in agriculture, environmental management and biotechnology.
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
Search this database of names and associated basic bibliographic details of all seed plants by Plant names, Authors, Publications, or Collectors. Includes data from Index Kewensis, Gray Card Index, and the Australian Plant Names Index.
Internet Directory for Botany
This site must have every single botanically-related website listed. Search alphabetically or by subject.
Italian Botanist
It publishes original research covering all fields of Botany in its wider sense, from molecular to ecosystem levels, including Mycology. The geographical coverage of the journal is specially focused on the Italian territory, but studies from other areas are also welcome. It is a peer-reviewed, open-access, journal.
Jepson eFlora
It contains taxonomic treatments for native and naturalized plants occurring in wildlands or otherwise outside of cultivation in California. Documented waifs and some agricultural weeds are also included.
JSE Journal of Systematics and Evolution
A bi-monthly international English language journal dedicated to the understanding of biodiversity and evolution.
JSTOR Global Plants
It is a community-contributed database that features more than two million high resolution plant type specimen images and other foundational materials from the collections of hundreds of herbaria around the world. It is an essential resource for institutions supporting research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies.
Linnaeus Link
It is an international collaboration between libraries with significant holdings of Linnaean material. It is funded, maintained and co-ordinated by the Linnean Society of London. Its main aim is to be a comprehensive, online Union Catalogue of Linnaean publications, facilitating research for scholars worldwide by enabling them to identify locations of titles with a single internet search.
Louisiana State University Herbarium
Founded in 1869, the Louisiana State University (LSU) Herbarium is the oldest collection of preserved plant specimens in the Gulf South and is the second largest collection of Louisiana plants. Originally composed entirely of specimens of vascular plants, it now also includes fine collections of lichens and fungi.
Macpalxóchitl
Es un medio electrónico de comunicación entre la comunidad de botánicos y la Sociedad Botánica de México que se publica mensualmente. Macpalxóchitl permite a los interesados en esta área del conocimiento expresar sus ideas e inquietudes, y compartir información en general.
Natural History Museum (London) Department of Botany Databases
This site contains a nice collection of images from several historic herbariums and from the other databases at BM.
Nature Plants
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.
NewScientist | Botany Links
Great site! Each site listed is reviewed in depth.
NYBG Steere Herbarium
As the largest herbarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Steere Herbarium is a priceless resource for scholars around the world who are documenting earth's biodiversity of plants and fungi.
OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment)
This is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers that enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.
Oxford University Press
It publishes the highest quality journals and delivers this research to the widest possible audience.
PLANTS Database
This is an excellent site from the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA). Information is current, very well-maintained and organized.
The Plant List
This is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).
The Plant Press
It is the quarterly newsletter from the Department of Botany and the U.S. National Herbarium. The purpose of The Plant Press is to provide information about the activities of the Department. Included are articles about staff research and travel, visitors, new publications, and plant conservation highlights. In-depth insight in the world of botany is provided in each issue by the Chair of Botany.
PhytoKeys
This is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online and print, rapidly produced journal launched to support free exchange of ideas and information in systematic botany.
Phytologia
An open-access journal to expedite plant systematic, phytogeographical and ecological publication.
New Phytologist
This is an international electronic journal published 16 times a year, and is owned by a non-profit-making charitable trust dedicated to the promotion of plant science.
Phytoneuron
A venue for digital publication of miscellaneous reports on taxonomy, floristics, and geographical distribution of vascular plants.
Phytotaxa
A rapid international journal for accelerating the publication of botanical taxonomy.
RECOLNAT
350 years of natural history collections: a digital platform for the environment and society.
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural
RCHN publishes original research dealing with past and present phenomena from organismic to higher levels of biological organization, considering both empirical and theoretical studies on all kinds of taxa and environments.
The Royal Society
It is an independent scientific academy of the UK and the Commonwealth, dedicated to promoting excellence in science.
Schlechtendalia
This journal offers open access to its content, based on the basic assumption that the free public availability of research benefits a worldwide exchange of knowledge.
Science Advances
It is a new open access online journal published by AAAS. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people.
Scott's Botanical Links
Sites are rated on a 4-star scale according to educational value, completeness and scientific correctedness. This is a great site with reviews and links to very obscure, but good sites.
Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations
A database of over 3000 black and white and color drawings of Bromeliaceae, Cactaceae, and Melastomataceae.
Smithsonian Contributions to Botany
This series reports on the scientific, technical, and historical research conducted by Smithsonian staff and their professional colleagues, as well as on the collections of the various Smithsonian museums.
The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)
Custodian of the nine National Botanical Gardens in South Africa. Contains information on NBI's databases and libraries, South African botanical gardens, and research.
Southwest Environmental Information Network (SEINet)
It was created to serve as a gateway to distributed data resources of interest to the environmental research community in Arizona and beyond. Through a common web interface, we offer tools to locate, access and work with a variety of data.
Specimen Management System for California Herbaria (SMASCH)
Database of text data and images of specimens that document the distribution and classification of the plants of California. Information from over 300,000 specimens has been entered.
Springer Link
Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings.
Taylor & Francis Online
One of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks, reference works, and databases, our content spans all areas of the humanities, social sciences, behavioral sciences, science, technology, and medicine.
Turkish Journal of Botany
It is published electronically 6 times a year by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and accepts manuscripts (in English) covering all areas of plant biology, all levels of organisation (molecular to ecosystem), and all plant groups and allied organisms (algae, fungi, and lichens).
The University and Jepson Herbaria
This is a gateway to data and images of herbarium specimens of all plant and fungal taxa from all parts of the world held at the University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH)
This is a beautiful and easy to navigate site. Contains several searchable type specimen databases (Algae, Bryophytes, Lichens, Vascular Plants) and links to their Fungi and Diatom websites.
USDA Plants Database
Plant List of Accepted Nomenclature, Taxonomy, and Symbols. The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
Vascular Plant Image Gallery Texas A & M University
Contains a large set of so-so images.
The Virtual Foliage Page
This collection of images is from the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Includes five sets of digital images: General Botany, Plant Systematics Teaching Collection, Dendrology, Fungi, and Vegetation of Wisconsin. Thousands of great images.
The Virtual Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden
This site allows you to search NY's entire specimen catalog of vascular and non-vascular plants and fungi. Few images.
Wiley Online Library
This site hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 6 million articles from over 1500 journals, over 16,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSPF)
This Checklist gives information on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families. It allows you to search for all the scientific names of a particular plant, or the areas of the world in which it grows (distribution).