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Vascular Flora of Wisconsin - Botany 401

Links

* Key to Wisconsin Asteraceae

[Robert Kowal's on-line key with hotlinks to species pages - this done on the UW Stevens Point website. A pdf of this most recent - 2007 - version is also available.]

* Key to Wisconsin Woody Plants for the iPod

[The Key to Wisconsin Woody Plants for the iPod is an easy-to-use, highly portable guide to all native trees and shrubs of the state, as well as common exotic species. Navigate through the dichotomous key using iPod's click-wheel to identify an unknown plant species, and verify your ID with color images! Other features include a built in glossary with definitions of the small number of technical terms that are used in the key. To get started, download the appropriate version of the key for your iPod, and follow the simple installation and usage instructions in the User Guide.]

* Wisconsin Vascular Plants

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

* UW Stevens Point Vascular Plants

[Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium site similar to Madison's but with some other great links]

* Ferns and Fern Allies of Wisconsin

[UW Green Bay site with keys and glossary to Wisconsin's cryptogams]

* Trees of Wisconsin and Shrubs of Wisconsin

[UW Green Bay site with keys and images to Wisconsin's woody plants]

* Wisconsin Threatened and Endangered Species

[DNR site with listings, information, and images]

* Invasive Plants of Wisconsin

[Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin website; specific invasive plants of NE WI site also]

* University of Wisconsin Plant Systematics Collection

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

* UW Dendrology Images

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

* 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]

* UW Botanical Garden Tour

[Interactive site featuring over 40 families and 600 species]

* Virtual Foliage

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

* Botany Resources

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

* Families and Genera

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

* Botanical Society of America

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

* American Society of Plant Taxonomists

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