Systematic Links

Direct links to systematic sites that may be useful in the course

 

bullet Peter Stevens' Angiosperm Phylogeny Website

[up-to-date APG classification of angiosperms; navigate via "trees" with detailed descriptions of families and other clades]

bullet University of Wisconsin Plant Systematics Collection

[descriptions of families from all land plant phyla; links to images of genera]

bullet  University of Wisconsin Wisflora

[University of Wisconsin Herbarium checklist of vascular plants in Wisconsin; complete with images, distributional maps, habitat, and synonomy]

bullet  Wisconsin - Stevens Point Plants of Wisconsin

[University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Herbarium checklist of vascular plants in Wisconsin; complete with images, distributional maps, habitat, and synonomy]

bullet  Wisconsin - Green Bay Fern Key

[University of Wisconsin Green Bay's excellent key with pictures for Wisconsin ferns and relatives]

bullet Michigan Online Flora

[online key with beautiful images of Michigan's vascular flora including map distributions; up-to-date nomenclature except for names of some monocot families]

bullet Grasses of Iowa

[online picture key of upper Midwest grasses - best resource for identifying grasses]

bullet Tree of Life web project

[tree based description of relationships of all life; over 3,000 web pages for different groups]

bullet Joe Felsenstein's Phylogeny Programs Website

[links to nearly 200 different phylogenetic software packages]

bullet UW Dendrology Images

[Woody plant images and keys; developed for Botany 402]

bullet UW Botany Department Greenhouse Virtual Tour

[Greenhouse tour - room by room; illustrating and describing plants - many of which are seen in laboratory or discussed in lecture]

bullet UW Botanical Garden Tour

[Interactive site featuring over 40 families and 600 species]

bullet Virtual Foliage

[Link site to UW wide plant images; maintained by Botany 130 laboratory supervisor, Michael Clayton]

bullet Botany Resources

[Huge ! worldwide set of links to botanical (mainly systematic) resources - try it]

bullet Families and Genera

[Current list of KEW recognized families and their genera - includes synonomy]

bullet Botanical Society of America

[Homepage for BSA with links to online verison of American Journal of Botany; student membership]

bullet American Society of Plant Taxonomists

[Homepage for ASPT - publisher of Systematic Botany; student membership]