Web Directory

» About.com: Poisonous Plants for Cats, Dogs, Humans
   Article listing a number of poisonous plants, with links to further information about those plants.
   http://landscaping.about.com/od/poisonouslandscapeplants/

» All America Selections Winners
   Showcases new varieties of flowers, vegetables, and plants for garden performance.
   http://www.all-americaselections.org/

» BBC: Plant Finder
   Plant database with a photo and horticultural description for each entry. Searchable by botanical and common names, as well as other characteristics
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/

» BackyardGardener.com: Garden Guides on Plants
   Starting point for information on (types of) plants, with summary information for many species and varieties.
   http://www.backyardgardener.com/plants/

» 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.
   http://www.plantoftheweek.org/

» Chicago Botanic Garden: Ornamental Plant Development
   Provides access to plant evaluation reports from the Botanic Garden's plant trials. Each report, in PDF format, provides several pages of description and photos.
   http://www.chicagobotanic.org/research/plant_evaluation/

» Dave's Garden: PlantFiles
   Database with over 80,000 plants with cultivation information and pictures supplied by member gardeners.
   http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/

» DenverPlants.com
   This resource for gardeners in the Denver metro area includes a sizeable database of plants with photos and cultural information.
   http://www.denverplants.com/

» Desert-Tropicals.com
   Features searchable database of thousands of plants, with basic information and often photos. Includes many succulents, herbs, and tropical fruit trees.
   http://www.desert-tropicals.com/

» Dinosaur Garden Plants
   Describes plants that lived during the age of the dinosaurs, with brief information, lists, and links to other resources for plants of the mesozoic era.
   http://www.dinosaurgardenplants.com/

» Findmeplants.co.uk
   Garden plant finder. Searchable by garden conditions and design requirements such as flower color, size and growth habit. Search results include plant photo and summary information.
   http://www.findmeplants.co.uk/

» Floridata
   Features hundreds of plant portraits, each illustrated with several photos, documenting the garden uses and cultural requirements of each species or cultivar.
   http://www.floridata.com/

» Flower Finder
   Search a database of live and cut flowers according to color, usage, and other criteria. Includes photo and summary information for each plant.
   http://www.myflowerfinder.com

» Flowers of India
   Collection of hundreds of plant photos with brief descriptions. Each of the plants grows in India, but both natives and non-natives are featured.
   http://www.flowersofindia.net/

» Foliage Plants Database
   Searchable database with basic information and some photographs of plants grown primarily for their foliage. Japanese and English.
   http://albinopri.cool.ne.jp/leaf/en/

» Fruits and Vegetables
   Includes set of fact sheets and links from the University of Florida.
   http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Fruits_and_Vegetables

» GardenAway
   Plant database with search engine to find plant ideas according to location, design and lifestyle. Free membership gives access to online journal with folders, to-do's and notes.
   http://gardenaway.com

» 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.
   http://gardenline.usask.ca/

» Gardenweb: Name That Plant
   Forum that allows users to upload images of plants that they are trying to identify.
   http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/namegal/

» Garten.cz
   Features a searchable, multilingual garden plant encyclopedia, with a summary of cultural and botanical information and in many cases photos.
   http://www.garten.cz/

» GreenerThumb.com
   Provides articles on selection, culture, and propagation of several popularly grown perennials and bulbs.
   http://www.greenerthumb.com

» HortiPlex
   Horticultural database with over 100,000 species and cultivars. Comments, ratings, and photos for many varieties supplied by members of the Gardenweb community.
   http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/

» Horticopia On-line Plant Information
   Includes directory of plants, categorized by genus, includes summary cultural information and small photograph for each plant.
   http://www.horticopia.com/hortpix/

» 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.
   http://www.bestplants.org/

» Landscape Plants For South Florida
   Manual of subtropical landscaping plants prepared by Palm Beach State College. Searchable database of Florida native and exotic plant species, with information on uses, horticultural characteristics, and photographs.
   http://www.plantbook.org

» Michigan State University Plant Encyclopedia
   Plant information database, including photographs, Latin name pronunciations. Searchable by botanical and common names, and plant characteristics.
   http://www.msuplants.com

» 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.
   http://njaes.rutgers.edu/weeds/

» Pacific Northwest Plants
   Database on plant identification, culture and usage for the U.S. Northwest, including native and introduced species and their major varieties and cultivars.
   http://pnwplants.wsu.edu/

» PlantBuzz
   Gardener Mark McDonough presents horticultural musings and illustrated plant studies, with particular emphasis on alliums and other bulbs for rock gardens.
   http://www.plantbuzz.com/

» PlantZAfrica
   Includes information about plants native to southern Africa, including hundreds of alphabetically arranged plant portraits, by the National Botanical Institute of South Africa.
   http://www.plantzafrica.com/

» 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.
   http://www.pfaf.org/

» 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.
   http://www.plants.usda.gov/

» Plants Toxic to Animals
   Resources about toxic plants from the Veterinary Medicine Library.
   http://www.library.illinois.edu/vex/toxic/

» Plantwire
   Project to categorize plants by their flower color, as well as a variety of horticultural tags. Draws from a substantial photo database, with brief description and cultural details for each selection.
   http://www.plantwire.com

» Suite101: Plants & Bulbs
   Information and how-to articles on a variety of plant topics by Angela England and other contributors.
   http://plantsbulbs.suite101.com

» SunnyGardens.com
   Plant encyclopedia featuring photos and short descriptions of annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees.
   http://www.sunnygardens.com/

» The Families of Flowering Plants
   Offers descriptions, illustrations, and identification retrieval.
   http://delta-intkey.com/angio/

» 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.
   http://www.paghat.com/

» Translat
   Translation program for botanical Latin.
   http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pbostock/

» WeedAlert.com
   Offers a weed listing for the United States regions, primarily weeds occurring in lawns.
   http://www.weedalert.com/