Go to For the Techies Organizations
Links to other sites about wildflowers:
Connecticut Botanical Society: photo gallery |
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Weeds Gone Wild: National Park Service site about invasives. |
US Forest service: Celebrating Wildflowers Coloring pages |
Brooklyn Botanical Native Flora Garden |
North Amercian trees: |
eNature.com is the web's premier destination for information about the wild animals and plants of the United States. Well, that’s what they say. Here’s the link for the Wildflower field guide. |
neartica: has a special section Eastern Wildflowers. Look under “Major Segments of Neartica” box |
New York Natural Heritage Program |
NRCS/USDA Plant posters |
The Manzanita Progject: Digital Images Available on the Web from Special Collections, California Academy of Sciences Library |
http://research.calacademy.org/research/library/manzanita/html/ |
CalPhotos is a collection of 203,060 photos of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes from around the world. |
For those of you who are techies:
Utah State University: Tools for Plant Identification: Grass Keys |
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US Department of Agriculture |
Flora of North America |
Grasses of RI |
http://plants.usda.gov/plantkeys/rhode_island_grasses/RHODE_ISLAND_GRASSES.html |
Rare Plants of RI |
Common Mosses and Liverworts of New England Woodlots |
USDA Plant Fact Sheets and Plant Guides |
And, if you want to get involved with plant protection and enjoy a challenge, check out New England Wild Flower Society's Plant Conservation Volunteer Program. |
http://www.newfs.org/volunteers/conservation-volunteers.html |
Tom Stuart's Hardy Fern Library |
Don Lubin's site for New England Ferns |
| Silvics of North America: A two-volume set from the USDA Forest Service - these documents provide information about the biology of tree species growing in forest lands of the United States. |
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/table_of_contents.htm |
And some local wild plant and
environmental organizations:
Rhode Island Wild Plant Society |
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New England Wildflower Society |
RI Natural History Survey |
Audubon Society of RI -- Their refuges are great places to look for native plants. |