Favorite Links
University of Wisconsin Herbarium checklist of vascular plants in Wisconsin; complete with images, distributional maps, habitat, and synonomy
University of Michigan Herbarium; Online keys and great pictures of the vascular flora of Michigan in APG III format; great resource in combination with Field Manual of Michigan Flora
Tree of Life web project
Tree based description of relationships of all life; over 3,000 web pages for different groups
Phylogeny Programs website of Joe Felsenstein - University of Washington
Links to nearly 200 different phylogenetic software packages
Browse 1,422,000 global plant names, 200,200 detailed descriptions, and 374,800 images
My favorite cool plant image websites:
Keir Morse - Botanist & Photographer; University of Hawaii Flowering Vascular Plant Families; University of California CalPhotos:Plants; Thomas Schopke’s Plant Image Gallery
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website of Peter Stevens - Missouri Botanical Garden
APG classification of angiosperms; navigate via "trees" with detailed descriptions of families and other clades
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
The society that fosters, encourages, and promotes education and research in all areas of plant systematics; I am serving as Past-President for 2014-2015 of the society
I am an avid contributor to the iNaturalist method of documentation of plant and animal diversity and biogeography. My handle is kjsytsma
Minnesota Wildflowers - a field guide to the flora of Minnesota
Excellent descriptions and images of the Minnesota herbs, shrubs, and trees. “How to separate similar looking species” is my favorite part and included in descriptions of most species.
